Democrats say Trump is keeping Congress in the dark on North Korea

Democrats say Trump is keeping Congress in the dark on North Korea

Congress has yet to be briefed on Trump's first summit with Kim Jong Un last year in Singapore, the Democrats say in a letter to the president.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers leading key House national security committees accused President Donald Trump Thursday of keeping Congress in the dark about his administration's talks with North Korea and the state of the regime's nuclear weapons program.

"There is no legitimate reason for having failed to provide regular, senior-level briefings to the relevant committees of jurisdiction on a matter of such significance to our national security," Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Smith and Adam Schiff, chairmen of the House foreign affairs, intelligence and armed services committees, wrote in a letter to the president.
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The lawmakers said "our ability to conduct oversight of U.S. policy toward North Korea on behalf of the American people has been inappropriately curtailed by your administration's unwillingness to share information with Congress."

Notice the Trumpian tendency toward secrecy? All those closed door meetings with Putin?

It is becoming a challenge to distinguish between legitimate gripes about Trump from today's Democrat stepping up to whatever mic just to complain about whatever they can come up with.

Besides, this is not really about notification but rather trying to exploit that Trump and his own advisers & Intelligence Agencies seem to be on different pages.

JacksinPA said:

Democrats say Trump is keeping Congress in the dark on North Korea

Congress has yet to be briefed on Trump's first summit with Kim Jong Un last year in Singapore, the Democrats say in a letter to the president.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers leading key House national security committees accused President Donald Trump Thursday of keeping Congress in the dark about his administration's talks with North Korea and the state of the regime's nuclear weapons program.

"There is no legitimate reason for having failed to provide regular, senior-level briefings to the relevant committees of jurisdiction on a matter of such significance to our national security," Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Smith and Adam Schiff, chairmen of the House foreign affairs, intelligence and armed services committees, wrote in a letter to the president.
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The lawmakers said "our ability to conduct oversight of U.S. policy toward North Korea on behalf of the American people has been inappropriately curtailed by your administration's unwillingness to share information with Congress."

Notice the Trumpian tendency toward secrecy? All those closed door meetings with Putin?

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Maybe the Dems should say please.

Sure he briefed them. He said he shook Kim's hand and magically NK stopped being a threat. He failed to mention that NK kept right on with its program, while he made concessions.

Congress is ALWAYS in the dark

JacksinPA said:

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers leading key House national security committees accused President Donald Trump Thursday of keeping Congress in the dark about his administration's talks with North Korea and the state of the regime's nuclear weapons program.

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Good!

If the President told Eliot and Adam, those two would blab to their media pals anything that made the President look bad.


I am so glad that President Trump refuses to kowtow to people of their ilk.

JacksinPA said:

Democrats say Trump is keeping Congress in the dark on North Korea

Congress has yet to be briefed on Trump's first summit with Kim Jong Un last year in Singapore, the Democrats say in a letter to the president.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers leading key House national security committees accused President Donald Trump Thursday of keeping Congress in the dark about his administration's talks with North Korea and the state of the regime's nuclear weapons program.

"There is no legitimate reason for having failed to provide regular, senior-level briefings to the relevant committees of jurisdiction on a matter of such significance to our national security," Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Smith and Adam Schiff, chairmen of the House foreign affairs, intelligence and armed services committees, wrote in a letter to the president.
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The lawmakers said "our ability to conduct oversight of U.S. policy toward North Korea on behalf of the American people has been inappropriately curtailed by your administration's unwillingness to share information with Congress."

Notice the Trumpian tendency toward secrecy? All those closed door meetings with Putin?

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Liberals complain no matter what trump does

Anyone consider that trump met with the NK leader, they talked and no deals were agreed upon, meaning there is nothing to report at this time?

JacksinPA said:

Democrats say Trump is keeping Congress in the dark on North Korea

Congress has yet to be briefed on Trump's first summit with Kim Jong Un last year in Singapore, the Democrats say in a letter to the president.

WASHINGTON — Democratic lawmakers leading key House national security committees accused President Donald Trump Thursday of keeping Congress in the dark about his administration's talks with North Korea and the state of the regime's nuclear weapons program.

"There is no legitimate reason for having failed to provide regular, senior-level briefings to the relevant committees of jurisdiction on a matter of such significance to our national security," Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Smith and Adam Schiff, chairmen of the House foreign affairs, intelligence and armed services committees, wrote in a letter to the president.
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The lawmakers said "our ability to conduct oversight of U.S. policy toward North Korea on behalf of the American people has been inappropriately curtailed by your administration's unwillingness to share information with Congress."

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LOL, we all know why. Kim is "owning" Trump. We have gotten ZERO concessions from KIm as KIm has gotten everything he and his family has wanted for decades.

This ship has sailed, it's already too late. North Korea will stay a nuclear state and enjoy much improved economic ties and investments from China, Russia, South Korea and Japan.
In return, the TRump organization will get all kinds of "most favored deals" (kick backs on North Korean investments.

Anyone who can't see this is a complete dolt or to deep into the Trumpism cult to think independent.

Fletch said:

Liberals complain no matter what trump does

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Trump cures Cancer...
"He's murdering cancer cells! He's putting Oncologists out of work! He's hurting Big Pharma! Impeach him!"

Mr Person said:

Sure he briefed them. He said he shook Kim's hand and magically NK stopped being a threat. He failed to mention that NK kept right on with its program, while he made concessions.

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He'll do it again in a few weeks in Vietnam. Shake hands with Kim, have some hamberders together, declare the summit a victory, and head home to the first tee at Mar-a-Lago.

Nothing new will come from the meeting with Kim Jong-un except that both Trump and Kim will have more propaganda to feed their base. Kim Jong-un has one leverage tool, his nukes and he's never-ever-ever going to dismantle his nuclear sites and agree to inspections. Nope, not happening. Kim Jong-un doesn't need to test any more of his missiles, it's just not necessary because other more subtle parts of Kim Jong Un's weapons program continues.

North Korea didn't carry out any missile or nuclear tests in 2018, an apparent vindication of Donald Trump's unconventional foreign policy approach. Verbal sparring between Trump and Kim escalated and appeared to elevate the threat of a devastating war. Then it all stopped. North Korea conducted its last nuclear test in September 2017 and its last missile launch a month later. Trump has gone from ridiculing Kim as "little rocket man" to saying he "fell in love" with the young dictator. Trump has pointed to this as evidence that his strategy to defuse Kim's government is working. Tests are only part of the story. "Kim has not changed his policy ... but claims that he's now moved from research-and-development and onto mass production." according to Cristina Varriale, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank.

North Korea continues to produce fissile material and develop missile bases around the country, according to experts and analysis of detailed satellite images. This transition from testing to production should come as no surprise — it's exactly what Kim told the world he would do at the beginning of the year. In his New Year's Day address, Kim claimed that his scientists and engineers had completed all the trial runs they needed. Now, he said bluntly, "the nuclear weapons research sector and the rocket industry should mass-produce nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles." At the current rate of production, North Korea could have around 100 warheads by 2020.

The North Koreans have appeared reluctant to deal with Trump's subordinates, such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Some believe they would prefer to exploit Trump's impulsiveness, like when he gave an on-the-spot concession to Kim that he would halt large war games with South Korea, appearing to blindside his own military.

North Korea will never willingly give up its nuclear weapons, especially ones that might be able to strike the U.S., because Kim's regime believes they are its best insurance policy against invasion.

Rogue Valley said:

He'll do it again in a few weeks in Vietnam. Shake hands with Kim, have some hamberders together, declare the summit a victory, and head home to the first tee at Mar-a-Lago.

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And then the usual buffoons will declare that Trump's failure to accomplish anything is better than anything Obama did because shaking Kim's hand counts as "trying" whereas ramping up sanctions doesn't, or some other flavor of bull****.