Pelosi Slams Trump Admin’s Classified Notification Of Iran Strike To Congress

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during her weekly news conference on December 12, 2019. (Photo by Drew Angerer/GettyImages)
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Saturday night blasted the Trump administration’s decision to classify its formal notification of its assassination of top Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani to Congress.

“This classified War Powers Act notification delivered to Congress raises more questions than it answers,” Pelosi said in an official statement. “This document prompts serious and urgent questions about the timing, manner and justification of the Administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran.”

The Democratic leader raised concerns over the secretive nature of the document, which “suggests that the Congress and the American people are being left in the dark about our national security.”

“The Trump Administration’s provocative, escalatory and disproportionate military engagement continues to put servicemembers [sic], diplomats and citizens of America and our allies in danger,” said Pelosi.

She called on the administration to work with Congress and hammer out a “bonafide de-escalatory strategy that prevents further violence.”

On Friday, U.S. forces killed Soleimani via drone strike on Trump’s orders. The President claimed the Iranian military leader posed an “imminent” threat to U.S. security, though he and the administration have yet to provide evidence of such a threat.

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  1. "…the Administration’s decision to engage in hostilities against Iran.”

    Thank you, Madam Speaker. Call it by its name and offer the much needed correction to Trump’s dithering about how he doesn’t want to start a war. He probably doesn’t but he’s too stupid to realize that that is exactly what he did.

  2. Avatar for tpr tpr says:

    I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me that Trump would also rely on the “it’s a secret” answer when it came to explaining the attacks.

    • His sex life is a secret (but some of the scandals and crimes are public)
    • His personal life is a secret
    • His business life is a secret
    • His political life (i.e. the campaign) was a secret, but now we know it was was filled with Russian agents
    • His administration is a secret

    He treats true information about himself like ebola. Certainly there must be an explanation.


    ETA: corrected some wrong analysis (h/t @justruss)

    See also:

  3. He’s a little boy.

  4. And his tax records which he swore he would reveal now is hopefully protected by the SCOTUS.

  5. Of all the administrations this nation has had in its history, it’s remarkable that this one wants to take us into a potentially catastrophic regional war saying “trust us.” They can’t even make a bogus case on the evidence they have.

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