Clapper: Trump ‘Has Spent the Last Three Years Discrediting the Very Intelligence Community’

‘To me it’s a bit of a stretch that by doing this, they thwarted an imminent attack because attacks are carried out typically under Soleimani by proxies’

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CLAPPER: “Well, in the absence of seeing the intelligence, that’s a hard call to make. Soleimani himself didn’t plant ieds, he didn’t himself launch prospect attacks against American personnel and facilities. To me it’s a bit of a stretch that by doing this, they thwarted an imminent attack because attacks are carried out typically under Soleimani by proxies. That is, militias in Iraq. And I also think there’s a credibility issue here in general where the president has spent the last three years discrediting the very community. And I think there’s a little bit of history that people should reremember which of course was the occasion for an invasion. So I think skepticism is in order here.”

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