Washington, D.C.— Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) today sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, calling on them to clarify whether members of the Obama Administration did in fact review the text of the two secret side agreements made between the IAEA and Iran to the Iranian nuclear deal.   
 
Secretary Moniz initially claimed the agreements would be kept secret, however Moniz testified yesterday to the Senate Armed Services Committee that members of his Department of Energy staff may indeed have had access to the text of the separate arrangements. Secretary Kerry also testified that the members of his Department of State negotiating team—in particular Under Secretary Sherman and her staff—may have read  the arrangements. In a media interview this morning, Under Secretary Sherman confirmed that she had seen the arrangements.  These admissions come more than a week after Senator Cotton and Congressman Pompeo inquired about these side deals, and if true, undercut the Administration's claims that the side deals must remain secret between the IAEA and Iran.  
 
The full text of the letter can be found here.