Iran Situation

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(01-08-2020, 10:36 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I see this as the GOP being unhappy with the briefing they received. Nowhere did I read a republican saying there was no current threat. Perhaps you could point it out. 

“There was no specific information given to us of a specific attack. I didn’t learn anything in the hearing that I hadn’t seen in a newspaper already. None of it was overwhelming that X was going to happen,"

-Rand Paul

I understand that you're probably going to focus on the semantics of the words Benton chose, but the question members of Congress had was what imminent threat was there that allowed the President to circumvent Congress in engaging in military action. If the Trump administration is going to assert legal authority by using the President's Commander-in-Chief constitutional powers (which they have), legally they need to demonstrate to Congress that there was an imminent threat. 

Rand Paul clearly states that there was no evidence shown of a specific imminent threat.