GOP’s Letter-Writing Motives Questioned by Clinton
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Alex Wong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Faced with her own controversy involving a personal email account, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton weighed in on another hot button issue Tuesday regarding a letter sent to Iran by 47 Republican Senators that appears to encourage its leadership to reject a deal with the Obama administration to freeze its nuclear program.
Clinton told reporters the missive “was out of step with the best traditions of American leadership. And one has to ask, what was the purpose of this letter?”
However, Clinton gave own her theories about why Republicans warned Tehran that any agreement could be undone by the next president, saying, “Either these senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to the commander-in-chief in the midst of high-stakes international diplomacy.”
Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers are fighting back against charges that they were trying to undercut the authority of the White House in making deal with foreign regimes.
Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused President Obama of deliberately trying to keep members of Congress in the dark over Iran negotiations, which are supposed to conclude within weeks.
The Kentucky Republican surmised that Obama “does not want Congress to have any say-so over the bad deal that we are certain he seems to be inclined to make.”
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