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User ID: 78320702 United States 01/12/2020 02:24 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Esper Says He ‘Didn’t See’ Specific Evidence Iranians Planned to Attack 4 Embassies Looks like the WH is now back tracking. This is big news [ link to www.nytimes.com (secure)] WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said on Sunday that he never saw any specific piece of evidence that Iran was planning an attack on four American embassies, as President Trump had claimed last week as a justification for the strike on an Iranian general that sent the United States and Iran to the brink of war. “I didn’t see one with regard to four embassies,” Mr. Esper said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” But he added: “I share the president’s view that probably — my expectation was they were going to go after our embassies. The embassies are the most prominent display of American presence in a country.” |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76871995 United States 01/12/2020 02:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Esper Says He ‘Didn’t See’ Specific Evidence Iranians Planned to Attack 4 Embassies Pompeo has been invited to testify Tuesday. Sounds like Esper could be invited also..!?
Engel's House Foreign Affairs Committee is slated to hold hearings on Soleimani's killing. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76599441 France 01/12/2020 10:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Esper Says He ‘Didn’t See’ Specific Evidence Iranians Planned to Attack 4 Embassies I'm so old I remember when a cabinet member going on a Sunday show and giving a contradictory story about intelligence was enough to merit seven congressional investigations, one led by a guy named Mike Pompeo.
And this time, the president even lied. |
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User ID: 76277080 United States 01/12/2020 11:26 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Esper Says He ‘Didn’t See’ Specific Evidence Iranians Planned to Attack 4 Embassies So the 'imminent danger'is looking like it was bogus. This will be news this week. |