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January 2020

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 09, 2020 33 Comments
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the Canadian government has information that Iran shot down the Ukrainian plane on Wednesday:
“We have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence: the evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile,” he told reporters in Ottawa Thursday.

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 09, 2020 14 Comments
A U.S. official said that the Pentagon has a "high level of confidence" that Iran shot down the Ukrainian plane after takeoff in Tehran on Wednesday:
Investigators are trying to determine what downed the Ukraine International Airlines flight on Wednesday. The probe is expected to be particularly thorny, with heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the killing of a top Iranian general likely to complicate international cooperation.

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 09, 2020 30 Comments
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she will hold onto the articles of impeachment despite Senate Democrats pressuring her to hand them to the chamber:
“No, I’m not holding them indefinitely," Pelosi told reporters during a press conference at the Capitol. "I will turn them over when I’m ready, and that will probably be soon.”

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 09, 2020 15 Comments
House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) broke with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on CNN's New Day over the articles of impeachment:
"I understand what the speaker is trying to do, basically trying to use the leverage of that to work with Democratic and Republican senators to try to get a reasonable trial, a trial that would actually show evidence, bring out witnesses," Smith told CNN. "But at the end of the day, just like we control it in the House, [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell controls it in the Senate."

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 08, 2020 61 Comments
In the short run, the killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps., is a complete victory for Trump. The killing came after a long series of Iranian provocations over the past several months and years. The killing of an American and the attack on the American Embassy in Baghdad, together with planned attacks in the near future, were too much and provoked the drone attack on Soleimani.

Posted by Mary Chastain on January 08, 2020 25 Comments
President Donald Trump told the nation the Iran attacks on Iraqi military bases did not kill any American or Iraqi soldiers. He also noted that "Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world."
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