In my experience, that's unheard of. If you're going to go and brief the Senate with regards to a national security issue, your job is to present the truth to that group of senators and let them know exactly what has happened and the justification for any action that took place.
Panetta criticizes the administration for not allowing senators to discuss national security issues openly.
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I think it's pretty clear that that Mr. Trump has turned 80 years of U.S. foreign policy on its head.
Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.
It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.
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