House Democrat: Trump not sharing Iran war casualty statistics with Congress

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) on Monday said President Trump has not shared Iran war casualty statistics with Congress, a point of contention after three U.S. service members were killed over the last week as hostilities with Iran resumed.

Smith, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN’s Erin Burnett’s on “OutFront” that there has been no transparency from the president or the Pentagon about the full extent of equipment losses and casualty statistics. He said Trump was “a dictator running this country.”

“We have never had a situation where we’ve been at war and the president has treated it as his own war, where he doesn’t have to share information with the American people or with Congress,” Smith told Burnett. “I mean, this is a frightening situation.”

Burnett pointed out Smith’s Armed Services Committee role and said it “would seem to me definitional that if anybody knew the extent of losses” during the war, it would be him.

“Yeah, and we’re digging,” he replied.........

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