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Democrats irresponsibly impugn anti-Iranian intelligence

By Quin Hillyer
Published May 24, 2019 1:34am ET
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Democrats irresponsibly impugn anti-Iranian intelligence
FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2017 file photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., flanked by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, left, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., holds a news conference on Capitol Hill to respond to the Republican tax reform plan in Washington. Top Democratic leaders in Congress have abruptly pulled out of a planned meeting with President Donald Trump after he attacked them on Twitter. Trump tweeted early Tuesday that "I don't see a deal!" with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi. Schumer and Pelosi are shooting back with a statement asking for talks with top GOP leaders in Congress instead because, they wrote, “we don’t have any time to waste.” | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Congressional Democrats are dangerously close to undercutting U.S. national security for the sake of scoring political points against President Trump. Shame on them.

The subject is Iran. The Trump administration is quite openly moving major military resources nearer Iran, saying it has significant intelligence about Iranian threats to U.S. assets. Trump’s national security team, a bit belatedly, briefed numerous members of Congress earlier this week about those threats. Democrats responded by aiming more flak at Trump than at Iran.

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