The secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Barack Obama appeared on “Meet the Press” Sunday to discuss President Trump’s decision to take out Iran’s top military leader, Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, who the Pentagon says was “actively developing plans” for more attacks on Americans.
During the interview, former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson torpedoed the Democrats’ talking point about Trump supposedly needing congressional approval to order the strike on Soleimani. Whether or not you agree with the Trump administration’s description of Soleimani as a terrorist,” Johnson explained, the president had “ample domestic legal authority to take him out without additional congressional authorization.”
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