Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aggressively defended the Trump administration’s decision to kill Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a contentious hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Friday. Soleimani was the head of the Islamic Republican Guards Corps Quds Force, which coordinates the
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo aggressively defended the Trump administration’s decision to kill Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a contentious hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Friday.
Referring to Soleimani as Iran’s “top terrorist,” Pompeo said the decision to kill him “was a de-escalatory measure.” Iran responded to Soleimani’s death on Jan. 8 with ballistic missile barrages against Iraqi air bases housing U.S. troops in Al-Assad and Erbil that the Defense Department says injured 110 U.S. personnel.
That was not the only time that Pompeo cited classification issues in refusing to fully answer questions from both Democrats and Republicans. In particular, he used it as a defense during a series of testy exchanges with Democratic committee members over the administration’s evolving rationale for the strike against Soleimani.
In what appeared to be the Congressional hearing equivalent of a subtweet, Michigan Democratic Rep. Andy Levin showed Pompeo a map of the world showing national borders, but no names of countries, and asked Pompeo to point to the locations of the embassies that were under the threat of imminent attack. Pompeo, who had allegedly challenged an NPR reporter to find Ukraine on a blank map during a widely reported foul-mouthed tirade Jan.
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