Article snippet: Trump administration national security officials on Sunday were pushed to defend the intelligence that they said prompted the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the congressional briefing they delivered last week that was panned by a number of lawmakers and MORE's claims about threats to U.S. embassies. Members of Congress from both parties expressed skepticism about the administration's decision to kill Soleimani without briefing lawmakers, and on Sunday, Defense Secretary MORE and national security adviser Robert O'Brien were repeatedly pressed on the briefing and Trump's comments. Asked about Trump's assertion during a Friday Fox News interview that Soleimani was plotting attacks on four U.S. embassies, Esper conceded he “didn’t see” intelligence indicating such an imminent attack. “I didn't see one with regard to four embassies,” Esper said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” “What I’m saying is I share the president's view.” “What the president said was he believed there probably and could've been attacks against additional embassies. I shared that view. I know other members of the national security team shared that view. That’s why I deployed thousands of American paratroopers to the Middle East to reinforce our embassy in Baghdad and other sites throughout the region,” Esper said. In an interview with Fox News’s MORE, O’Brien also defended the apparent contradiction between what administration figures told Congress during a briefing on the airstrike that ki... Link to the full article to read more