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Senate Democratic leaders push Trump to release intelligence behind Soleimani strike in new letter
washingtontimes.com ^ | January 6, 2020 | Ryan Lovelace

Posted on 01/06/2020 8:10:54 AM PST by lowbridge

Senate Democratic leadership is urging President Trump to declassify the official war powers notification he submitted to Congress regarding the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani via a drone strike.

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Bob Menendez wrote a letter Sunday to Mr. Trump asking him to release the notification that was transmitted to Congress this weekend. The letter to the president was made public on Monday.

“It is critical that national security matters of such import be shared with the American people in a timely manner,” Mr. Schumer and Mr. Menendez wrote. “An entirely classified notification is simply not appropriate in a democratic society, and there appears to be no legitimate justification for classifying this notification.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amiri; democrats; iran; leaking; leaks; qassemsoleimani; qassemsuleimani; schumer; shahramamiri; soleimani; suleimani; trump
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To: SkyDancer

Exactly - they make these noises because they see there is real national Security Sensitive info in it and cannot release it - and know he won’t harm the Nation like that, so they get to holler how he’s “hiding” something.

Funny how hiding something is demonstrated on a written document that will be preserved for posterity...


41 posted on 01/06/2020 9:21:58 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin
"The problem here is that we pretty clearly had someone with access to Soleimani who gave us the information as to exactly when and where he would be. You can bet that the Iranian's are trying very hard to figure out exactly who that was. Any additional information we give will only help that search."

And, then, who would EVER want to help us in the future? I agree, NO information of even the slightest kind should ever be released!

42 posted on 01/06/2020 9:25:41 AM PST by jackibutterfly (A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, st or fed election, is a vote against America.)
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To: lowbridge

Hard for the Democrats to demonize an intelligence source if they don’t know who or what it is.

On the other hand, the more they carry on and raise hell about it the more people will listen when it is time to lay out the record on Iran...


43 posted on 01/06/2020 9:34:09 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: catnipman

Well sure, the Democrats got at least one Iranian scientist executed...


44 posted on 01/06/2020 9:36:28 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: lowbridge

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/executed-iranian-scientist-discussed-in-clinton-server-emails-fueling-gop-accusations


45 posted on 01/06/2020 9:38:28 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: lowbridge

Tom Cotton: Hillary Clinton’s Email Sealed the Fate Of An Iranian Scientist (VIDEO)
8/8/2016, 10:18:24 AM · by KeyLargo · 9 replies
Red State ^ | August 7, 2016 | streiff
Tom Cotton: Hillary Clinton’s Email Sealed the Fate Of An Iranian Scientist (VIDEO) Posted at 3:38 pm on August 7, 2016 by streiff Back in 2009, an Iranian nuclear scientist, Shahram Amiri, defected to the United States. What ensued was a complicated story that resulted in Amiri claiming he’d been abducted by the CIA, tortured, released, and finally repatriated to Iran. His heroic welcome from the Great Satan in 2010 was followed by his arrest for treason. Today the Iranians announced they had executed him. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton was on Face the Nation and the subject came up.

Oh My: Executed Iranian Nuclear Scientist Was Named in Hillary’s Emails
8/8/2016, 9:13:28 AM · by Kaslin · 27 replies
Townhall.com ^ | August 8, 2016 | Katie Pavlich
Over the weekend the Iranian regime executed Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist convicted of spying on behalf of the United States. Iran executed a nuclear scientist convicted of spying for the United States, an official said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that the nation secretly detained and tried a man who was once heralded as a hero. Shahram Amiri defected to the U.S. at the height of Western efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear program. When he returned in 2010, he was welcomed with flowers by government leaders and even went on the Iranian talk-show circuit. Then he mysteriously...

Clinton’s private server held emails about Iranian nuclear ‘spy’ who was executed today
8/8/2016, 12:57:00 AM · by TigerClaws · 23 replies
Dailymail ^ | Aug 7, 2016 | Wills Robinson
Hillary Clinton used her private email server to discuss details of the Iranian nuclear scientist who has executed for giving information to the CIA. Shahram Amiri, who was hanged on Sunday for ‘revealing secrets to the enemy’, was in the US and allegedly informing on Tehran’s extensive nuclear program during the Democrat’s controversial reign as Secretary of State. At the time she stressed researcher had been there of his ‘own free will’ and was described as ‘our friend’ in correspondences.

Iranian scientist gives info to US on Iran nuke program, Hillary discusses him in emails
8/7/2016, 4:47:34 PM · by heterosupremacist · 49 replies
https://www.jihadwatch.org ^ | 08/07/2016 | Robert Spencer
Must be nice to be above the law and never have to suffer any consequences for your actions — and indeed, to be on the verge of being rewarded with the Presidency of the United States after years of treasonable carelessness (at best). “Cotton: Clinton discussed executed Iranian scientist on email,” by Jacqueline Klimas, Washington Examiner, August 7, 2016: Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday. “I’m not going to comment on what he may or may not have...


46 posted on 01/06/2020 9:41:33 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: lowbridge

They know they’re not going to get it and they know why: that there is nothing in the world they wouldn’t betray, including their own country’s interests, in order to attack Trump.


47 posted on 01/06/2020 9:42:35 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Alberta's Child

True, but the Dems aren’t looking for info on how we found him, they are looking for info on how we found out what he was planning.


48 posted on 01/06/2020 9:45:20 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: lowbridge

Because Democrats will to use anything as a political weapon is more important to them than the safety and security of the United States.


49 posted on 01/06/2020 9:59:33 AM PST by Trumplican
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To: lowbridge

To Leakey Leahey and Turban Durban?

No thanks.


50 posted on 01/06/2020 9:59:37 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: lowbridge

Another post and run off thread with no insights from the one putting it up where they stand and why the post is important

I see a trend with the same folks exhibiting this method, and typically they do not respond to other posts in the thread as well...

Hmm, maybe they are trying to hide something

Like where they stand themselves

Frolling down the river....


51 posted on 01/06/2020 10:07:44 AM PST by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: SkyDancer
Right - and give our enemies information on how we do things.

"Sources and methods."

How many times did we hear that used as an excuse to keep obvious FBI misdeeds secret during the past 3 years of the Witch Hunt? But here, where it really matters, the Democrats couldn't care less so long as there might be some infinitesimal publicity advantage for them.

52 posted on 01/06/2020 10:59:49 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: 100American

Yeah. Dontcha just hate that?


53 posted on 01/06/2020 5:57:56 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Dearest DIMS : POUND SAND.


54 posted on 01/06/2020 6:02:18 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: ctdonath2
Trump should simply call Democrats out on “whose side are you on?”

You win the Internet for the Day!

55 posted on 01/06/2020 6:04:26 PM PST by Ace's Dad (Trump 2020!)
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