National security adviser Robert O'Brien defended the intel the administration used to justify its Soleimani strike, claiming he had been devising attacks on U.S. facilities that endangered the lives of American diplomats and service members
National security adviser Robert O'Brien on Tuesday defended the intelligence the administration used to justify its killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, claiming Tehran’s top military commander had been devising attacks on U.S. facilities that endangered the lives of American diplomats and service members.
“The president has always made it his first priority to protect American citizens, and the intel that we had, the information we had — which we believe was very strong — shows that Soleimani and those he was plotting with were looking to kill American diplomats and soldiers in significant numbers in the coming days,” O'Brien told “Fox & Friends.
O'Brien reiterated the administration’s position Tuesday, insisting Soleimani “was in the midst of that plotting” at the time of his demise. “That's why he was traveling in the region to Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad: To conspire with people to attack American facilities that contained diplomats, soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, coast guardsmen,” O'Brien said.toward the intelligence behind the airstrike against Soleimani and the administration’s assertion that he posed an imminent threat to American interests.
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