U.S. Lawmakers Grill Trump’s Intel Chief on Iran Nuclear Threat |
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During a public hearing before Congress on Wednesday, the top U.S. intelligence official asserted that Iran had been working to restart its nuclear program prior to the U.S. and Israel launching a war against it—in contradiction to her written testimony submitted to the same hearing.
In her written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, wrote that because of last summer’s 12 days of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s missile and nuclear sites, “Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement.”
During a public hearing before Congress on Wednesday, the top U.S. intelligence official asserted that Iran had been working to restart its nuclear program prior to the U.S. and Israel launching a war against it—in contradiction to her written testimony submitted to the same hearing.
In her written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, wrote that because of last summer’s 12 days of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s missile and nuclear sites, “Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild their enrichment capability. The entrances to the underground facilities that were bombed have been buried and shuttered with cement.”
However, in her spoken testimony, Gabbard deviated........