The New Yorker's Sy Hersh recently reported on a Presidential Finding that was issued to you and other top-level Congressional leaders regarding covert operations to undermine Iran’s nuclear ambitions and attempts to undermine the government through regime change, and stated that you and others approved the funding of such escalated operations. Obviously, many of the details are classified, but now that the story has been made public what can you tell us about all this? Should we be alarmed?
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Yes, we should be alarmed. Given the administration's track record on (lack of) truthfulness and (lack of) willingness to know and act on the true interests of nation, we can be certain that they are off doing covert activities in Iran, risking a shooting war that could envelop our troops in Iraq.
Let's be clear about one thing: the American's people are in charge. Congress is their representative in the federal government. It is not morally defensible for any member of Congress to keep vital information from the American people on any issue that could lead this nation into war. No power of the President trumps this and no member of Congress has any duty to keep such information from the American people. It is never in the security interests of the United States to prevent the American people from knowing whether their representatives are being used in illegal activities, whether it is a domestic or international law. If the administration is breaking the law, then it is mandatory that any member of Congress who learns of this make that information available to other members of Congress and the American people, so that the culprits can be brought to justice.
Even if the story is public, she still cannot comment on it...