Despite facing criticism with other US officials for a briefing they gave lawmakers, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he did a "dynamite job."
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has acknowledged large gaps in the intelligence suggesting Iran would imminently launch attacks on Americans — the threat assessment used to justify killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
No US forces were killed or wounded during that attack, but the unilateral decision to kill an Iranian official, as well as the increased US troop presence in the Middle East prompted by it, has driven a wedge between the Trump administration and congressional lawmakers. "There was no raw evidence presented that this was an imminent threat," Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington said.
The publicly vague reasoning behind the Trump administration's attack prompted the House of Representatives to pass a resolution on Thursday meant to limit the president's use of military force against Iran.
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