GOP senator who erupted over Iran briefing shares awful new details

[Gothmog]

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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.

[dewsgirl]

1. They both look shaken and alarmed in this photo.😳

[Gothmog]

3. I am not a fan of Mike Lee

These statements show how serious this matter is

[dewsgirl]

5. I'm assuming they will fall back in line, but I am quite alarmed

at the looks on their faces. What happened in that meeting? I ordinarily can't stand either one of them, but whatever is going on it appears to be horrific.😳

[NewJeffCT]

6. I'm not a fan of any Senate Republicans

just the fact that he's speaking out is something. Most Republicans stopped criticizing Trump after that July 4, 2018 trip to Moscow...

[usaf-vet]

7. They're both the male equivalents of "I'm concerned" Susan Collins of Maine.

Their reactions mean nothing when push comes to shove they will both follow Suzy C like good little boys and do what Moscowmitch tells them to do.

[Turbineguy]

2. One thing is for sure

trump's supporters will support him even after the EMP strike shuts off their TV's.

[vlyons]

4. Is it finally sinking in that King Donnie Dimwit the Adderall addict

is a danger to peace and stability in the world, and that he doesn't care about anything but money and his sick delusions of grandeur?

Alas, to only very few

[aggiesal]

8. Yup, and he keeps crying ...

why he never receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

What an idiot.

Truly a Pendejo of the highest order.

[IronLionZion]

9. If Dems had the Senate, we could have blocked authorization to use military force

Every election is important

[pansypoo53219]

10. obligation is not in the moron's vocabulary.

[chowder66]

11. The person who put out the hypothetical should have used Putin instead of the Supreme Leader. nt

[geretogo]

12. The German people did not stand up to Hitler and the Nazi equivalent being the GOP will not either.

I'm afraid it will take Armageddon that the evangelicals and anti Christ Trump bring about before
they say " Oh my GOD what have we brought forth " .