US House Committee Threatens to Call Forced Pompeo
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The Chair of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday threatened to forcibly call Secretary of State Mike Pompeo if he did not provide information about Iran's policies and orders for President Donald Trump's attack. The order of the Trump attack killed the Iranian military commander.
"If Minister Pompeo is uncooperative with the committee, then we will consider taking more decisive actions later, including forced summons," Democratic Party Representative Eliot Engel said at the opening of the session where Pompeo was invited to testify but was not present.
Engel also said he would send a letter to Pompeo and Defense Minister Mike Esper on Tuesday, to dig up information about the attacks that occurred in Iraq. The committee chaired by the Democratic Faction last week said it had summoned Pompeo to testify.
Members of Congress urged the Trump government for more information about the assassination of Iran's great general Qasem Soleimani this January.
The State Department is reluctant to comment. Meanwhile, Pompeo is on his way to California.
Criticism of the government increased as a number of officials alternately justified the attack. Trump reaps the controversy by tweeting that 'it doesn't really matter' whether Soleimani is an imminent threat.
Republican Representative Mike McCau, citing a history of Soleimani's involvement in hostilities against US interests justified the attack on him. But McCau added that the government could declassify other information about the problem.
Parliament on Thursday reprimanded the president by passing a resolution that would stop Trump from carrying out further military action against Iran. "I don't think the government is honest with the state or the Congress," Engel said when opening the session.
