Classified Iran Briefing Reviews Split Along Party Lines

It's funny, how perception of reality is always split along party lines. After a classified briefing about the U.S. strikes on Iran, Senators left with sharply divided views. Republicans said it reinforced their belief that the strikes were effective and Democrats complained that it did not fully answer their questions. Via the Washington Post:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, briefed senators after days of complaints from Democrats that the administration had not filled them in on how badly strikes last weekend damaged Iran’s nuclear program.

Several Republican senators emerged from the Thursday briefing saying it backed up Ratcliffe’s public assessment Wednesday that the program had been severely damaged. But Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) said the briefing raised more questions than it answered and that he would push for more details.

“What was clear from today’s briefing is that there is no coherent strategy, no endgame, no plan,” Schumer said on the Senate floor after the briefing. “What are we doing?”

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