Pence says sharing intel with Congress could 'compromise' sources

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Vice President Mike Pence responded Thursday to lawmakers, including Republicans, who criticized the lack of information shared by the Trump administration during classified congressional briefings on the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, saying the intelligence was too sensitive to share.

On NBC's "TODAY," Pence told Savannah Guthrie that the administration could not provide Congress with some of the "most compelling" intelligence behind the administration's decision to kill Soleimani because doing so "could compromise" sources and methods.

"Some of that has to do with what's called sources and methods," Pence said. "Some of the most compelling evidence that Qassem Soleimani was preparing an imminent attack against American forces and American personnel also represents some of the most sensitive intelligence that we have — it could compromise those sources and methods."

Pence said "those of us" who were made aware of the intelligence "in real time know that President Trump made the right decision to take Qassem Soleimani off the battlefield." He added that Soleimani "was planning imminent attacks against American forces."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pence-says-sharing-intel-congress-could-compromise-sources-n1112791

[Pachamama]

1. Because Jesus told him so....

Or the Mango Satan....

[spanone]

2. trump has no interest in sharing anything with congress as long as there are congressional democrats

[gibraltar72]

3. All they have to do is read the bible.

[Ohiogal]

4. Too sensitive to share with Congress

but Sniffles the Clown shared it with all his Mar a Loco pals in the buffet line on New Year’s Eve.

Stop insulting our intelligence, Pence!

[pandr32]

5. +1

[Newest Reality]

6. Touche!

Sharing intel, or anything with Pence is compromising our democracy, IMHO.

I will state, emphatically, that Fundamentalism and theocracy, (and Mosaic Law) are dangerous enemies of democracy and a potential cause for its total destruction in order to replace it with an American form of Fascist dictatorship without compromise.

That is my line in the sand on the matter.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. The General Was Going To Personally Attack?

Seems if it were really imminent, all plans woupd have been finalized, assigments determined and timelines set.
So how would killing this guy stop anything?

[rockfordfile]

8. That's the same lying S.O.B during the Iraq lies

[maxsolomon]

9. The Intelligence Committees regularly recieve classified briefings

and keep their damn fool mouths shut about it.

Pence is tap dancing. Ignore him.

[spanone]

11. pence is representing the administration and this is what they believe.

[maxsolomon]

14. They absolutlely do not BELIEVE this.

It's just their excuse because they cannot admit the truth: Trump did it in a fit of pique.

[spanone]

15. believe what you wish.

They completely ignored Congress

Mike Lee....

Now, in the interview with NPR’s Rachel Martin, Lee has gone into more alarming detail. Lee reiterated that officials “were unable or unwilling to identify any point” at which they’d come to Congress for authorization for the use of military force. Then this exchange happened:

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.


Obviously, this was an extreme hypothetical. But the point of it was to discern the contours of the administration’s sense of its own obligation to come to Congress for approval of future hostilities. And it succeeded in doing just that, demonstrating that they recognize no such obligation.

[maxsolomon]

18. My belief is simply that they're gaslighting Congress.

They don't actually believe the horseshit they're shoveling.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. Could compromise sources? How in the world could revealing this information as requested by...

our lawmakers be any f**king worse than the so called president rump revealing secrets to the Russians, etc.? pence is as stupid as they come, and he's one of the ones that literally takes the cake.

[Docreed2003]

12. What a crock of shit

Mike, your dipshit boss was bragging about this assassination at his big wig New Year's Eve party! His own moronic son bragged about it on Twitter! But sure, gotta protect those sources...whatever you self righteous prick

[blm]

13. Republicans were fine with outing every intel source in Libya and

every local person assisting the US in the region. For no other reason but political strategy to cripple a probable Clinton candidacy.

[duforsure]

16. trump and pence hide things claiming they would share the info

Does he mean like trump does when he intentionally leaks stuff to the media, or is he talking about Nunes when he was trumps ears in the House intel committee as his mole for him?

[czarjak]

17. SHHHHHHH...

Don’t tell Jesus either, Mikey.