WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s administration held a Republicans-only briefing about U.S. strikes on alleged drug vessels near Venezuela, in what one senior Democrat on Thursday called a dangerous trend of increasing partisanship in national security.
¡°This is not how the system is supposed to work,¡± Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, ranking member and former chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told a news conference about the briefing, which took place on Wednesday.
¡°When you politicize decision-making about putting our servicemembers in harm¡¯s way, you make them less safe,¡± he said.
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