Sen. Warner: The Intel Community Has Not Changed Its Assessment That Iran Had Not Moved Towards Nuclear Weaponization
Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) told CNN anchor Kasie Hunt that he was briefed on Iran on Monday on the status of Iran’s nuclear capabilities.
SEN. MARK WARNER (D-VA): We got a brief as recently as Monday, that seems ages ago, that said the intelligence community has not changed their assessment that Iran had not moved towards an actual weaponization. They’ve clearly enriched additional uranium, but there is then how do you put that in a weapons form and how do you deliver it? And if this president is going to suddenly blow off all of the consensus opinion of the intelligence community, well, what are these folks’ job? Their job is to speak truth to power, not cook the books. When you cook intelligence, you end up with a war like Iraq, where a president at that point didn’t follow the intelligence and the intelligence was manipulated. I worry that we may be seeing some of that going on. I have no, I have called for Tulsi Gabbard’s resignation because we’ve seen her fire intelligence officials because they wouldn’t bend the knee. But in this case, I think Gabbard’s comments in March were correct. And it’s, to my mind, fairly dangerous that the president blows that assessment off as cavalierly as he did.
