The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee thre...
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee threatened on Tuesday to subpoena Secretary of State Mike Pompeo if he does not provide information about Iran policy and President Donald Trump’s ordering the strike that killed an Iranian military commander.
“If Secretary Pompeo is not going to cooperate with the committee, then we will consider very strongly taking other action in the future, including subpoenas,” Democratic Representative Eliot Engel said in remarks opening a hearing where Pompeo had been invited to testify, but did not appear. The Democratic-led committee said last week it had called Pompeo to testify, as members of Congress pushed Trump’s administration for more information about the killing this month of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.Criticism of the administration has grown as officials have offered shifting justifications for the strike. Trump fueled controversy by saying on Twitter that “it doesn’t really matter” whether Soleimani posed an imminent threat.
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