“The President never said there was specific intelligence to four different embassies,” Esper told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” But Esper said he shared the President’s belief that the embassies were threatened by Qasem Soleimani.
"What the President said with regard to the four embassies is what I believe as well. He said that he believed that they probably, that they could have been targeting the embassies in the region,"Esper said.
In a separate interview that aired Sunday morning, Esper said he “didn’t see” a specific threat against four embassies in the intelligence.
“I didn’t see one with regard to four embassies,” he told CBS’ Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.”
This is getting bizarre. Is this just a comms problem where people in the WH aren’t on the same page re: the facts, or have the facts been distorted?
It’s genuinely hard to believe the US Secrety of Defence wasn’t in the loop on the intelligence briefings.
They are dealing with a president unable to tell the truth. He is talking about foreign threats like steel mills opening where he changes the numbers at every rally on a whim.
According to what though? Was there specific intelligence on a plot to attack embassies, or was it more general? Haven’t been following this too closely but the story seems to keep shifting.
