I’ve been a member of the Intel Committee for over a decade. Been briefed hundreds of times on threats — some imminent, some not. When targeting a top gov’t official for killing: “We don’t know precisely when and we don’t know precisely where,” does not constitute “imminent.”https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1215622568096534529 …
What’s hard to understand, it had to be done. What you’re not stating is no matter how we got him, drone strike or even a secret snatch and grab, a top official would be gone and people would complain. It’s not like we charge him and he turns himself in. That would never happen.