Controversy swirled regarding the Obama administration’s decision to withhold from the public the text describing how the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) with Iran is to be implemented, with the Washington Free Beacon publishing multiple articles on the issue and a leading House lawmaker calling on the White House to release the full text.  The Beacon detailed extensive measures that the Obama administration is forcing even lawmakers to undertake to view the reportedly “unclassified” document.
By the afternoon the Beacon revealed that Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtinen (R-FL) – a top Congressional voice on foreign policy and a leading member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – had written the President calling Iran deal’s details to be made public.”
“In order for Congress to properly perform its oversight functions and for the American people and our allies to have a full and open debate on the issue, I respectfully request that you make public the full text of the” deal, she wrote.
Due to Iran’s increasingly confrontational actions, as well as the White House’s continued refusal to release the deal, Ros-Lehtinen asks that Obama “take ever effort to make the full text” public to the “American people so they can judge for themselves the merits of this deal.”