The chairman of Senate Intel, Sen. Richard Burr (R), was not briefed before the strike

[Dennis Donovan]

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Natasha Bertrand ✔ @NatashaBertrand

The chairman of Senate Intel, Sen. Richard Burr, was not briefed before the strike either, I'm told

Kathryn Watson ✔ @kathrynw5

A Warner aide says the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee learned about the strike from the AP wires

1:49 PM - Jan 3, 2020

Interesting - seems to be a pattern of who they excluded...

[elleng]

1. They excluded EVERYONE, didn't they?

ALL congress-members.

[Dennis Donovan]

5. Not Lindsey n/t

[StarfishSaver]

6. And Eric

[Raster]

7. So Lapdog* and Gums* are in the tRump* circle of trust...

...

[elleng]

10. They informed lindsey, and no other members?

[Amaryllis]

16. Link , Please? Do you know this for a fact?

[Dennis Donovan]

17. here:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-briefed-graham-airstrike-kept-dems-the-dark

[Amaryllis]

19. THank you! I've havent had time to follow closely and was way out of touch. Used to be you

could not watch news for two days witout being hopelessly behind.

[pandr32]

9. tRump wants to be like Putin

...so he is becoming a dictator and destroying our government. He wants only those loyal to him in every branch and office. He is ignoring Congress because it is set-up as a bipartisan check on his power (especially since Nancy Pelosi became Speaker), he has been stacking the courts and firing government employees who take their jobs seriously.
The problem is he will only be a puppet dictator. He works for Putin.
Gawd help us all!

[elleng]

11. and repugs are allowing it.

[spanone]

2. this white house has no use for congress....they consider them a nuisance

[C_U_L8R]

3. Apparently, Lindsay Graham is a proxy for the entire government.

What a joke.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Waiting for the Putin angle to pop.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. This helps Putin by driving up oil prices and drawing the US back into the Iraq quagmire.

That's two ways off the top of me head.

[Wellstone ruled]

12. Putin wants his KGB

days back in Iraq when he and his Crew ran Saddam . This has been Tee-ed up since the early nineties.

Yes,Putin wants control of the Oil Deposits one way or another.

[duforsure]

13. How long before the GOP in Congress realize

Trumps not a republican, he's not loyal to this country or them, and works only for Putin , and is working to eliminate any powers they have for Putin, while Putin manipulates his actions weakling us as a country.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. I would've thought way WAY before now...

[Vinca]

15. Maybe they should ask Hannity to notify them next time.

[Skittles]

18. I bet Putin knew

oh yes

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. He should have kissed Trump's ass

Lindsey did so Trump told him.