WASHINGTON, March 18 -- Sen. Angus King issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Angus King (I-ME) pressed administration officials on known intelligence that Iran could consider a blockage of the Strait of Hormuz (https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/iran-oil-hormuz-blockade-trump-f96bdd53?mod=author_content_page_1_pos_14) as leverage if the United States attacked Iran. In the annual Worldwide Threats hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), King specifically pressed Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence, and John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, on whether the potential blockade, and other retaliatory consequences, were communicated to the President prior to...