This is horrifying.@SenMikeLee just gave a new interview about why he erupted over that Iran briefing.— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 9, 2020
Lee said officials refused to say whether they'd seek Congressional approval for the hypothetical assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader.
New piece:https://t.co/az9wkP09U8
MARTIN: What kind of hypotheticals were you putting to them in hopes of understanding when the administration sees a need for Congressional authority?
LEE: As I recall, one of my colleagues asked a hypothetical involving the Supreme Leader of Iran: If at that point, the United States government decided that it wanted to undertake a strike against him personally, recognizing that he would be a threat to the United States, would that require authorization for the use of military force?
The fact that there was nothing but a refusal to answer that question was perhaps the most deeply upsetting thing to me in that meeting.
One of the briefers, he goes on to say, discouraged the Senators from debating the war powers of the POTUS on the Senate floor; which is where Lindsay Graham got his talking point.
"Ours is not a system in which we can be taken into war by the Executive, and it never should be."
Article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution provides that “The Congress shall have Power”: https://t.co/r1d9saB8Pv pic.twitter.com/z82DtRzbDu— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 9, 2020
They are fascists, as long as the dictaor is a Republican. Literally, fascists and so are a large percentage of the American media. We are like Italy in the 1920s.
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