Democratic senator says intelligence community may have ‘corrupted’ information about Soleimani strike

Published January 14, 2020 3:53pm ET



Sen. Jeff Merkley claimed that the information the intelligence community gave lawmakers about the decision to kill Qassem Soleimani could be “corrupted.”

President Trump ordered the drone strike to kill the Iranian general due to an “imminent threat” against American lives. Many Democrats have doubted the administration because the evidence of the pending attack has been conflicted by reports that Trump had cleared killing Soleimani several months before the general died.

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