Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing

Ruetors ^ | Apr 24, 2017 | Patricia Zengerle

[Mechanicos]

All 100 senators have been asked to the White House for the briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the aides said.

[Cobra64]

The Oval Office reference was asinine to begin with.

[Cold Heart]

Maybe when Trump has the senators all locked up he will tell them “the bombing starts in 5 minutes”

[deport]

Maybe just a briefing, maybe more...

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A friendly pow wow and maybe an asking for a few dollars to build the WALL.

[Cobra64]

What’s with all this bussing crap? Who cares about the transportation logistics? We pay these clowns $200 k a year, they should be able to figure out how to get to an office building for a meeting.

[deport]

A couple or three busses is all thats needed rather than 100+ autos.

[editor-surveyor]

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Well, hundreds of trips are made per day in that non-navigable tunnel.

[plain talk]

Yep. “Bless their hearts”

[kabar]

The fact that the meeting is scheduled on Wednesday and that they are making arrangements to brief the House as well to be briefed by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tells me that there will not be any surprise attack by the US or a military response. It is probably in anticipation that NK will conduct a nuclear test tomorrow.

China and Japan have already called the WH asking them to be careful on any response we make to NK. No doubt this will be part of the briefing.

[So Cal Rocket]

The tunnel runs between the Capitol Bldg and the Senate and House office buildings.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bring in a couple of big TV cameras.
They don’t have to be hooked up to anything...

[PJBankard]

There are tunnels between the Capitol and the House/Senate Office Buildings that are used on a daily basis. There is even a tunnel between the Capitol and the Library of Congress. I’ve been in them. There is no navigable tunnel tunnel between the Capitol and the White House.

[hoosiermama]

China and Japan have already called the WH asking them to be careful on any response we make to NK. No doubt this will be part of the briefing.

Are they asking us to be careful because they are going to be responding? (They don't want confusions as to who is who. )

[libertylover]

I hope the Trump people don’t expect the Democrats to keep the briefing details quiet.
Of course, maybe Trump is setting them up to try to find out who leaks phony info to the press.

[onona]

Maybe when Trump has the senators all locked up he will tell them “the bombing starts in 5 minutes”

That's what I'm thinking. 1500 EST is 0400 in Korea. Any strikes would occur during O Dark Thirty.

[editor-surveyor]

What do you consider navigable?

[txhurl]

Again, it’s likely this will be an *after-action* briefing of the night before.

[editor-surveyor]

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Different tunnel.

[Ciexyz]

Wow.

[PJBankard]

A person can walk from end to end without special equipment. Sewers and the Steam Tunnels are not navigable.

[Gadsden1st]

I don’t know how reliable the source was, but I saw somewhere that China was supposed to have warned N.K. that if they conducted any test and any radioactive leakage affected China, China would take action.

Maybe the plan is to let N.K. set off a test and then China could claim to detect radioactive leakage to move in.