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Why would an opposing party be briefed on an ongoing military operation?
In a functioning democracy that would be a quite natural act.
Seems natural that they should. After all, they may be the ones that would have to clean up the mess in the future.
And also because this operation may lead to incoming war, which cannot be legally declared without congress aproval, even if they don't have the majority.
Bipartisan committees are there for this but they weren't briefed, secdef wasn't even briefed.
Let me ask you something, why wouldn't they?
I get why they would be briefed after the operation, but before and during seems like an unneeded security concern
It's been protocol for something like 80 years or something like that ever since those two big wars. It's because we have interests everywhere that not everyone is aware of so networking is necessary so we can be prepared for consequences before they happen because reacting afterwards unprepared is generally much more costly.
Then there's that whole pesky legal thing where the president is not allowed to start wars without Congressional approval...