Column: What did Trump know about Suleimani's supposed 'imminent threat' and when did he know it? (via latimesopinion)
When it comes to the decision to take out Iranian Gen. Qassem Suleimani, the question is, what did the Trump administration know and when did they know it?
We would be the people to first recognize the impact of whatever information we’re collecting, especially when it comes from agencies like the National Security Agency, which gets it straight from the horse’s mouth. So from the bottom up, you could clearly see where the risks were. He is the person who would be implementing the strategic plan to bring Shiite Islam in a clear crescent all the way around the Middle East. He would have subordinate commanders there who would go out and give training and education.
I believe we were losing three or four service members per day to [improvised explosive devices] every day for eight years. This administration standard is one American killed by a rocket attack by an Iraqi militia, they would hold the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps personally responsible?
But that they would now turn around and say, we have foreign intelligence that we used to kill Suleimani. It was based on the best assessments of the U.S. intelligence community. We can only produce the best information as it exists or as the best projection and forecast of what can come. And my family has served in every war from 1864 to today. My great-great-grandfather and his brother ran away from slavery and joined the Union Army to make the union a little more perfect through their participation in a country that didn’t like them, but they did it anyway. I have a niece who was in combat off of Yemen two years ago, was fired at by Iranian proxies, anti-ship missiles fired at her vessel.
We have a process for that. That’s the military judicial system. And it was working until the president stepped in, used what we call undue command influence and changed the result. And the president of the United States says, this is my kind of guy. Your new book seems to be filling in blanks and connecting dots on things that the Mueller report listed, but did not make the kind of connections that you do.
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