Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will not attend Wednesday’s classified briefing on Israel as a result of his latest indictment accusing him of being an unregistered foreign agent for Egypt.
Federal prosecutors accused Menendez and his wife of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act to work on behalf of the government of Egypt in a superseding indictment last week. The new charge, which comes less than one month after Menendez was indicted on bribery charges, raised questions over whether the embattled senator would participate in the all-members briefing.
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The New Jersey senator told reporters on Tuesday that he decided against attending, arguing his vast knowledge of the subject matter informed him on what the United States and Israel’s response must be to Hamas’s attack.
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