National Security and Foreign Affairs

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The Pentagon declined to say on Monday whether the USS Mason destroyer was targeted by multiple inbound missiles fired from Yemen on Saturday, as initially thought, saying a review was under way to determine what happened.

Washington — U.S. Reps. Justin Amash, R-Cascade Township, and Ted Lieu, D-California, sent a bipartisan letter Friday urging Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to brief lawmakers on the issues raised by reports that Yahoo searched its users’ incoming emails at the request of the federal government.

What’s up with Yahoo reportedly helping the government by scanning its users’ incoming emails? Like the rest of us, lawmakers want to know.

So a bipartisan group of 48 representatives on Friday sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, asking to be briefed as soon as possible.

Lawmakers are calling on the Obama administration to brief Congress on the surveillance program reportedly imposed on Yahoo Mail by intelligence authorities.

Letter: “it is our responsibility to have accurate information.”

On Friday, dozens of members of Congress wrote an open letter to the attorney general and the director of National Intelligence. In it, they requested a briefing regarding the recent Reuters story that Yahoo complied with a secret court order to search all of its customers’ e-mail.

On Tuesday, US Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) wrote a remarkable letter to Secretary of State John Kerry. Citing the “civilian carnage caused by the Saudi Arabia-led military coalition in Yemen,” Rep.