NEW: Responding to criticism of congressional briefings, VP Pence asserts to SavannahGuthrie that admin. could not share with the US Congress some of 'most compelling' intel around the Iran strike because doing so 'could compromise sources and methods.'
, leader of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Trump administration said it launched the attack because of intelligence that showed Soleimani was planning"imminent" attacks on U.S. personnel. But the administration has yet to make public the evidence behind that assertion and, according to Democratic and two Republican senators, did not detail that intelligence within a classified setting on Wednesday.
"Soleimani directed the recent attacks on U.S. personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American, and he orchestrated the violent assault on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad,"
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