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applegrove

(118,683 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 07:15 PM Jan 2020

Embassies Were Not Informed of Imminent Threats

Embassies Were Not Informed of Imminent Threats

January 13, 2020 at 5:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/01/13/embassies-were-not-informed-of-imminent-threats/

"SNIP.....

State Department officials involved in US embassy security were not made aware of imminent threats to four specific US embassies, two State Department officials tell CNN, further undermining President Trump’s claims that the top Iranian general he ordered killed earlier this month posed an imminent threat to the diplomatic outposts.

.....SNIP"

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Embassies Were Not Informed of Imminent Threats (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2020 OP
Which means there weren't any. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #1
Ahem malaise Jan 2020 #2
Correct. He pulled this directly out of his ass on fox 'news'. spanone Jan 2020 #4
No terrorist cells rounded up. No training camps bombed. Nothing you would expect to happen brewens Jan 2020 #3
Agree. All rump does is lie. Why would anyone believe him now? Why? Liar-in-chief has cried ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2020 #5

brewens

(13,594 posts)
3. No terrorist cells rounded up. No training camps bombed. Nothing you would expect to happen
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 07:32 PM
Jan 2020

if there were something in the works. Killing the boss wouldn't just make everything else disappear. If I were running something like that, I wouldn't tell the guys to just forget about it if anything happened to me. They have nothing to back any of that imminent threat claim up.

SWBTATTReg

(22,133 posts)
5. Agree. All rump does is lie. Why would anyone believe him now? Why? Liar-in-chief has cried ...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 07:53 PM
Jan 2020

wolf too many times, and it is showing in many not believing the lying son-of-a-b****.

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