Posted on 06/04/2015 3:36:24 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
US President Barack Obama's administration is scrambling to quell concerns ahead of a Congressional review of the impending Iran nuclear deal that is approaching a June 30 deadline, but one US Senator reports Obama is refusing to reveal a document detailing the full scope of the deal.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that he and other Senators are trying to obtain a document with the exact details of what the administration has already agreed to - but their requests are being refused.
"There is a document that explains what Iran is able to do per the agreement after the 10-year period," Corker told CNN on Wednesday. "I have asked the State Department for the document. They have not given it to me. I have asked the Energy Department for the document. They have not given it to me. I’ve asked the White House for the document. They have not given it to me."
"The only thing I can imagine...is that they think that it would shed (a) bad light on what they have agreed to," reasoned the Senator. "Most of us want to make sure that if we’re going to enter into an agreement, it is an agreement that will keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon over a long term."
While Obama may not be divulging the details of the deal, as part of efforts to defuse criticism of it US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz led a team of scientists on Tuesday in a classified meeting with lawmakers to try and address the perceived flaws in the deal, reports Washington Free Beacon.
The paper quoted sources saying the meeting focused on methods of verifying the nature of Iran's nuclear program as well as Iran's breakout capacity... .....
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What’s the significance (if any) to 2015 ?
It is more likely that Iran will release the document than Obama.
Corker talks big, then caves.
It’s all easier to understand if you realize he’s a Muslim. Then you understand why questions about his legacy are misguided. The more the deal benefits a Muslim country, any Muslim country, the better it is for his legacy, the way he thinks about it.
Has there EVER been an administration so secretive, and a press so utterly unconcerned about it?
Seems I read an article about Iran flat turning down the idea of unfettered inspections.
What happened to “Trust, but Verify?”
0bama is hiding in the Nuclee-ear Basement.
It is truly sad that ISIS and the Mullahs are
more open than Obama-the-Undocumented.
It is probably squirreled away in the same basement the TPP is being hidden at...
Boehner is hiding the trade bill.
We the people have no voice with these crooks.
“We have to pass it to see whats in it.”
They wouldn’t gruber us, would they?
Most transparent administration evah’
It will come taped to the ICBM carrying the nuclear weapon Obama wants so much for them to have.
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