Late last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo justified the U.S. airstrike on Qassim Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Quds Force, by claiming there was intelligence showing an “imminent attack.” Asked to substantiate those claims, the Trump administration has, at least publicly, offered effectively nothing.
It was against this backdrop that Pompeo spoke to reporters this morning at the State Department, where he was pressed for some kind of proof to back up his rhetoric. The cabinet secretary again came up short. “If you’re looking for imminence, you need look no further than the days that led up to the strike that was taken against Suleimani,” Mr. Pompeo told reporters at the State Department on Tuesday.In “the days that led up to” the airstrike that killed the Iranian general, there was considerable unrest in Baghdad, where large groups of Iraqis held enraged protests at the U.S. embassy in response to earlier U.S. airstrikes, which came in response to the death of an American contractor in Iraq.
MaddowBlog Of course Maddcow knows when the next attack is. How retarded
UROCKlive1 MaddowBlog On EVERY topic Pompeo comes up short! That’s why he & Trump are allied!
MaddowBlog Like his boss?
MaddowBlog He does nothing but deflect. He was 1st in his class at West Point and last in his class in integrity!!!
MaddowBlog Pressed on anything, Porky Pompeo always comes up short.
SafiMaasai MaddowBlog No surprise.
MaddowBlog When this guy gives an interview, he talks like a programmed robot lying through his teeth! Ingenuine!
MaddowBlog He got out of their quick when Andrea Mitchell asked the right questions. What's the matter Pompeo can't tell the truth you coward. Pompeo is Trump's mouth piece to spread lies far and wide. History is not your friend. It could be your demise Pompeo. Liar's always get caught!
MaddowBlog Imminent attack is the same as “weapons of mass destructions”. The start of losing thousands of our military men and woman.
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MaddowBlog Why are all the ppl answering questions in the White House so RUDE!!! They have no manners
MaddowBlog I think there was a SNL skit on this....about the first Persian gulf war...
MaddowBlog they can not give out this type of evidence it's secret and classified. Pompeo has done a great job getting rid of terrorist. Leave it to fake news to lie about the evidence on where Soleimani was going to attack next. Attacking the embassy was a act of war
MaddowBlog Still upset we killed a terrorist huh?
MaddowBlog I watch Pompeo press conference today and he had the nerves calling other people lier that was a joke,because that's what he does for a living everyday, why did all the members of the GOP party sold their souls to lying Trump, they are shameless.
MaddowBlog christ-on-a-stick boys, you've had DAYS to come up with some nonsensical bullshit. I mean, you're not even trying.
MaddowBlog There isn’t any
MaddowBlog The only imminent threat to these people is a fair trial.
MaddowBlog Why does Maddie believe she is entitled to national security plans?
MaddowBlog The World would be a lot safer if The owners of twitter take Trumps twitter account away from him and suspend his account until he is out of office. what is so wrong with that?
MaddowBlog Um, wait, I got it! I got it! There ain't no 'imminent'!
MaddowBlog Doesn't mean a thing. They hit us, we hit them back. If you love Iran so much go live there. I'll buy you plane ticket.
MaddowBlog Comforting!
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MaddowBlog Pompeo and trump must be tried for a war crime!
MaddowBlog You're all just jealous that Pompeo has confidence, and swagger...seen here struttin' his stuff through New York City: MoscowMitchMcConnell KremlinKevin levparnas IMPOTUS45 IMPOTUS WW3 Gozer GozertheGozerian
MaddowBlog How about.....none of your business. You want to know apply for his job or security clearances!!!
MaddowBlog Spin it however you wish, mitchellreports got taken to school by SecPompeo
MaddowBlog I have heard Pompeo say multiple times that he cannot talk about the intelligence because it would put intelligence people in danger.
MaddowBlog 'Planning nasty things' isn't 'an imminent attack'. Nor does killing someone, however reprehensible he may be, if that doesn't address the allegedly imminent attack.
MaddowBlog Madcow, MSNBC still lying and doing their part supporting Iran with their anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-American propaganda. Democrat owned, supported and spreading hate and dividing Americans.
MaddowBlog How the Fuck do you know !! Maddow has been wrong on EVERYTHING for 4 years ! How is she still employed !
MaddowBlog what if giving you this intel exposes a spy in the very heart of DeathToAmerica Iran? ever thought about that? unbelievable how having to spoon feed a bunch of strategic dunces could cause a superpower to lose a war..the political aspect of it anyways
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MaddowBlog Pompeo always come up short. He is useless to our country
MaddowBlog He needs that evidence or Pres. Trump is a war criminal, no?
MaddowBlog Because it was a Trump impulse burp. Nothing more and nothing less. The fate of the world hangs on his whim. And he controls the nukes.
MaddowBlog The Republicans are liars. They want a theocracy. They actually think they can create a Christian utopia. Its Nazi ideology. Englands history should teach them how horrible it is to not have freedom of religion. No freedom, no America as we know it.
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