Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tried Friday to clean up comments from the night before that appeared to contradict President Trump’s claim that the Iranian general he had killed was targeting multiple U.S. embassies.
Pompeo told reporters U.S. officials acted on “specific information on an imminent threat,” and that the “threat stream included attacks on U.S. embassies. … Full stop.”
American officials did not know “exactly which minute,” but he claimed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani was planning “broad, large-scale attacks” on American targets. Continue reading.