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作者：帕特里夏·曾格勒
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- 摘要
- 年度全球威胁听证会可能聚焦伊朗问题
- 两党议员均要求提供更多信息
- 听证会在一名情报官员因战争辞职后举行
- 共和党支持特朗普，民主党称这场冲突是”出于选择的战争”
华盛顿，3月18日（路透社） – 美国参议院情报委员会将于周三举行年度全球威胁听证会，距离伊朗战争爆发近三周，参议员们将有机会公开质询唐纳德·特朗普总统的高级助手，就国家安全问题展开提问。
这场听证会很可能聚焦始于2月28日的中东冲突，因为包括特朗普所在共和党部分议员和民主党议员在内的立法者均表示，希望了解这场已造成数千人死亡、数百万人生活受扰、并冲击能源和股市的战争更多细节。
民主党人尤其抱怨政府未充分向国会通报这场已耗费美国纳税人数十亿美元的冲突，并要求公开作证，而非过去两周进行的机密简报。
国家情报总监图尔西·加巴德（Tulsi Gabbard）和中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫（John Ratcliffe）等官员的证词，也可能涉及周二一名高级助手辞职的震惊消息，该助手正是因伊朗战争而辞职。
乔·肯特（Joe Kent）是特朗普政府首位因伊朗冲突辞职的高级官员，他曾领导国家反恐中心。
DNI办公室监督反恐中心，肯特与加巴德关系密切，自伊朗战争开始以来，加巴德一直保持低调。
肯特在社交媒体发布的信中写道：”我不能心安理得地支持伊朗持续的战争。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迫于以色列及其强大游说团体的压力。”
白宫驳斥了肯特的说法，称其信中包含”虚假声明”。
共和党人与民主党人意见分歧
该委员会主席、阿肯色州参议员汤姆·科顿（Tom Cotton）周二表示，军事行动”极其成功”，实现政府对伊朗的目标需要时间，但他有信心美国能够做到。
科顿称：”最终，我们将解除伊朗政权的武装，摧毁其导弹部队、无人机、导弹发射器、制造能力将被终结。其核计划将再次被粉碎。”
科顿表示，他认为这场行动是精心策划的，这与民主党和其他批评者的说法形成对比——他们称特朗普似乎未预料到伊朗会封锁关键能源运输通道霍尔木兹海峡。
围绕特朗普决定与以色列联合打击伊朗前，他得到了哪些情报的问题一直存在。
熟悉美国情报报告的消息人士称，特朗普曾被警告，例如，攻击伊朗可能引发对美国海湾盟友的报复，尽管他周一声称德黑兰的反应出人意料。
特朗普的这一说法紧随其他未得到美国情报报告支持的政府声明，例如伊朗将很快拥有能打击美国本土的导弹，以及需要两到四周才能制造出核弹。
另有两名知情人士称，在行动前，特朗普也得到简报，知晓伊朗可能试图封锁霍尔木兹海峡。
该委员会民主党副主席、弗吉尼亚州参议员马克·华纳（Mark Warner）将这场冲突称为”出于选择的战争”。
“美国没有迫在眉睫的威胁，我甚至不认为伊朗对以色列构成迫在眉睫的威胁，”他周日在哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）的”面对全国”节目中表示。
美国众议院情报委员会定于周四举行全球威胁听证会。
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US senators to grill Trump intelligence team, weeks into Iran war
March 18, 2026 10:08 AM UTC / Reuters
By Patricia Zengerle
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- Summary
- Annual hearing on global threats likely to focus on Iran
- Lawmakers from both parties have asked for more information
- Hearing comes after intelligence official quit, citing war
- Republicans back Trump, Democrats call conflict a ‘war of choice’
WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) – U.S. senators get a chance on Wednesday to question top aides to President Donald Trump in public about national security nearly three weeks into the Iran war as the Senate intelligence committee holds its annual hearing on worldwide threats to the United States.
The hearing is likely to focus on the Middle East conflict that began on February 28, as lawmakers – including some of Trump’s fellow Republicans as well as Democrats – have said they want more information about a war that has killed thousands of people, disrupted the lives of millions and shaken energy and stock markets.
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Democrats in particular have complained that the administration has not kept Congress adequately informed about a conflict that has cost U.S. taxpayers billions, and demanded public testimony rather than the classified briefings held in the past two weeks.
The testimony from officials including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe is also likely to touch on the shock announcement on Tuesday that a top aide to Gabbard had resigned, citing the war.
Joe Kent, who headed the National Counterterrorism Center, is the first senior official in Trump’s administration to resign over the conflict.
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The Office of the DNI oversees the counterterrorism center and Kent is close with Gabbard, who has kept a low profile since the Iran war began.
“I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. 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 lobby,” Kent wrote in a letter posted to social media.
The White House rejected Kent’s assertion, saying his letter included “false claims.”
REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS DIFFER
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who chairs the committee, said on Tuesday that the military campaign had been “extraordinarily successful” and it would take time to achieve the administration’s goals for Iran, but he was confident the U.S. would do so.
“In the end, we will have defanged the Iranian regime, their missile forces, their drones, their missile launchers, their manufacturing capability will be ended. Their nuclear program will once again be pulverized,” Cotton said.
Cotton said he felt the campaign was carefully planned, a contrast with Democrats and other critics who have said Trump did not seem to have planned for actions like Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, a critical energy shipping lane.
Questions have swirled around what Trump was told before he decided to join with Israel in striking Iran.
Sources familiar with U.S. intelligence reports have said Trump was warned, for example, that attacking Iran could trigger retaliation against U.S. Gulf allies despite his claims on Monday that Tehran’s reaction came as a surprise.
Trump’s assertion followed other administration claims that have not been backed by U.S. intelligence reporting, such as that Iran would soon have a missile capable of hitting the U.S. homeland and that it would need two to four weeks to make a nuclear bomb.
Trump was also briefed ahead of the operation that Tehran would likely seek to close the Strait of Hormuz, according to two other sources familiar with the matter.
Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the committee’s Democratic vice chairman, called the conflict a war of choice.
“There was no imminent threat to the United States, and I don’t believe there was even an imminent threat to Israel from Iran,” he said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
The House of Representatives intelligence committee is due to hold its worldwide threats hearing on Thursday.
Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman
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