Department of Justice officials were consulted before President Donald Trump ordered a strike that killed top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, Attorney General William Barr said on Monday.
Barr declined to say when the Justice Department was first consulted on the operation, but he described Soleimani as a “legitimate target.”
“This was a legitimate act of self-defense,” Barr stated in his first public comments on the strike.
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