Zachary Cohen
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Senior National Security reporter, covering the Pentagon for @CNN. Signal username: zcohen12.87 Proud husband of @ValentineNews_
A revealing few days…. nytimes.com/2026/03/19/us/…
Gabbard says the president asked her to go to Fulton County "the day of the raid"
Ossoff: Was it the assessment of the intelligence community that there was an imminent nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime? Gabbard: The only person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the president. It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat. Ossoff: It is precisely your responsibility. This is the worldwide threats hearing where, as you noted in your opening testimony quote, you represent the ic's assessment of threats.
The US intelligence community assesses that the Iranian regime “appears to be intact, but largely degraded due to attacks on its leadership and military capabilities,” DNI Gabbard says cnn.com/world/live-new…
Pressed by Sen. @ossoff on whether the intelligence community's had assessed that Iran posed "an imminent nuclear threat", as claimed by the White House, Gabbard said: "It is not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat."
Hours ago, U.S. forces successfully employed multiple 5,000-pound deep penetrator munitions on hardened Iranian missile sites along Iran’s coastline near the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian anti-ship cruise missiles in these sites posed a risk to international shipping in the strait.
The meeting is notable given Gabbard, Vance and Kent all have expressed similar anti-interventionist views in the past.
