Intel: Key senator mounts bid to force Trump to declassify report on Soleimani strike

The top Democrat on the Senate’s Middle East panel isn’t dropping the fight to force the Donald Trump administration to declassify the legal justification for the January drone strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani in Iraq.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is appealing to an interagency panel within the federal government that’s tasked with reviewing declassification requests. Any member of the public may appeal to the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) with a declassification request. But Murphy’s appeal marks the first time a lawmaker has turned to ISCAP to force the executive branch to declassify something.