Pompeo's comments in an interview on ABC's 'This Week' follow reports that some senior White House officials were skeptical about the rationale for the drone strike.
Pompeo's comments in an interview on ABC's "This Week" follow reports that some senior White House officials were skeptical about the rationale for the drone strike.
"The intelligence assessment made clear that no action -- allowing Soleimani to continue his plotting and his planning, his terror campaign -- created more risk than taking the action that we took last week," Pompeo said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a news briefing at the State Department in Washington, November 18, 2019.said Sunday that the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani has made the world safer, and that taking no action would have created more risk.
Pompeo's comments in an interview on ABC's "This Week" follow reports that some senior White House officials were skeptical about the rationale for the drone strike, which they viewed as the most"The intelligence assessment made clear that no action - allowing Soleimani to continue his plotting and his planning, his terror campaign - created more risk than taking the action that we took last week," Pompeo told ABC's George Stephanopoulos.
"This was a bad guy, we took him off the playing field," Pompeo added. "And that's important because this was a fella who was the glue, who was conducting active plotting against the United States of America, putting American lives at risk."
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