2026年3月18日 美国东部时间上午9:01 / 福克斯新闻
在该国最高反恐官员因抗议这场冲突辞职一天后，立法者将首次公开就伊朗战争问题质询总统唐纳德·特朗普的最高情报和间谍机构官员。
国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）、中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫（John Ratcliffe）、联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔（Kash Patel）、国家安全局局长威廉·哈特曼中将（Lt. Gen. William Hartman）和国防情报局局长詹姆斯·亚当斯中将（Lt. Gen. James Adams）均定于周三在参议院情报委员会作证。
此次听证会是在特朗普提名加巴德领导国家反恐中心的候选人乔·肯特（Joe Kent）周二突然辞职之后举行的。
最高反恐官员因抗议美国对伊朗战争辞职
国家情报局局长图尔西·加巴德于2025年7月23日在白宫布雷迪新闻简报室与记者交谈。(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“我不能在良知上支持正在进行的伊朗战争，”肯特在X平台（原推特）上说。“伊朗对我国没有迫在眉睫的威胁，很明显，我们发动这场战争是由于以色列及其强大的美国游说团体的压力。”
尽管委内瑞拉和古巴可能成为讨论点，但鉴于参议院民主党人一直呼吁就持续的战争举行国务卿马尔科·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）和战争部长皮特·赫格塞斯（Pete Hegseth）的公开听证会，伊朗可能会成为年度全球威胁听证会的主要议题。
加巴德的政治生涯一直反对与伊朗交战以及美国介入政权更迭，她很可能会因肯特的辞职而受到质询。
马利恩面临民主党质疑，这是其领导国土安全部的第一道难关，正值政府停摆之争
乔·肯特，国家反恐中心主任，于2025年12月11日在卡农大厦参加众议院国土安全委员会听证会时宣誓就职。(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
肯特宣布辞职后，加巴德表示，她作为国家情报局局长的职责是“协调和整合所有情报，为总统和总司令提供可获得的最佳信息，以帮助其做出决策。”
“在仔细审查了摆在他面前的所有信息后，特朗普总统得出结论，认为伊朗的恐怖伊斯兰政权构成了迫在眉睫的威胁，并基于这一结论采取了行动，”加巴德在X平台上表示。
听证会将由参议院情报委员会主席汤姆·科顿（R-Ark.）和民主党资深成员马克·华纳（D-Va.）主持。
民主党威胁要阻挠参议院工作，以迫使举行公开的伊朗听证会
参议院情报委员会主席汤姆·科顿（R-Ark.）认为，美国对伊朗的战争将持续数周，而非数日，因为美国正在削弱其进攻能力。(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
两人在对战争的看法上存在分歧——科顿热烈支持特朗普的决定，而华纳则认为伊朗对美国没有“迫在眉睫的威胁”。
“因此，将我们的军人置于危险境地以及该地区的基地置于危险境地的决定完全基于总统的决定，而非对美国的迫在眉睫的威胁，”华纳本月早些时候告诉美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）。
科顿推测冲突将在几周内结束，并在受到追问时重申了这一立场。
“我曾表示，根据我与总统的谈话以及我对伊朗军事能力的了解，我预计这将需要几周时间，而非几天，我们才刚刚开始几周，”科顿说。
“而且，每一天都有数百次，甚至数千次打击进入伊朗，稳步而有计划地削弱他们的军事力量，最终结果将是一个……没有进攻能力继续恐吓美国、以色列、我们的阿拉伯朋友和文明世界的国家，”他继续说道。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道报道美国参议院的记者。
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Senate to question Trump intel leaders on Iran war after top official quits in protest
March 18, 2026 9:01am EDT / Fox News
Lawmakers will get to grill President Donald Trump’s top intelligence and spying officials on the Iran war publicly for the first time, just a day after the nation’s top counterterrorism official resigned in protest over the conflict.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, FBI Director Kash Patel, National Security Agency chief Lt. Gen. William Hartman and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. James Adams are all set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday.
The hearing comes after Joe Kent, Trump’s pick to lead the National Counterterrorism Center under Gabbard, suddenly exited the job on Tuesday.
TOP COUNTERTERRORISM OFFICIAL RESIGNS IN PROTEST OF US WAR AGAINST IRAN
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on July 23, 2025.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” Kent said on X. “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
While Venezuela and Cuba could be points of discussion, Iran will likely be a major topic during the annual worldwide threats hearing, given that Senate Democrats have clamored for public hearings from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on the ongoing war.
Gabbard, who built her political career bucking war with Iran and the U.S. getting involved in regime change, will likely be grilled over Kent’s resignation.
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Joe Kent, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is sworn in to a House Homeland Security Committee hearing in the Cannon building on Dec. 11, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Following his announcement, Gabbard said her job as DNI chief is to help “coordinate and integrate all intelligence to provide the President and Commander in Chief with the best information available to inform his decisions.”
“After carefully reviewing all the information before him, President Trump concluded that the terrorist Islamist regime in Iran posed an imminent threat, and he took action based on that conclusion,” Gabbard said on X.
The hearing will be led by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who is the top-ranking Democrat on the panel.
DEMOCRATS THREATEN TO GRIND SENATE TO A HALT TO FORCE PUBLIC IRAN HEARINGS
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., argued that the war with Iran would continue for weeks, not days, as the U.S. continues to kneecap its offensive abilities.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Both have been at odds in their view of the war — Cotton fervently backs Trump’s decision, while Warner argued that Iran posed no “imminent threat” to the U.S.
“So the decision to put our service members in harm’s way and bases around the region in harm’s way was entirely based upon the president’s decision, not an imminent threat to America,” Warner told CNN earlier this month.
Cotton speculated that the conflict would end in a matter of weeks, and reaffirmed that position when pressed.
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“I’ve said that, based on my conversations with the president and my understanding of Iran’s military capabilities, I would expect it to take weeks, not days, and we’re only a couple weeks into it,” Cotton said.
“And again, every single day brings hundreds, if not thousands, of strikes into Iran that steadily and methodically degrade their military, and the end state will be a country… without the offensive capabilities to continue to terrorize the United States, Israel, our Arab friends and the civilized world,” he continued.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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