“It is not the intelligence community’s responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat,” she said at one point. Kent said he could not “in good conscience” back the war and did not agree that Iran posed an imminent threat. “I am very disappointed,” said an exasperated Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee. He asked whether she had omitted that reference to conform to Trump’s claims of an imminent threat. Ratcliffe tried to do the same Wednesday when he was asked whether intelligence supported Kent’s assessment that Iran was not an imminent threat.

Source: Huffington Post March 19, 2026 02:15 UTC