Esper appears to backtrack on Beirut explosion cause after White House pushback
Source: CNN
Esper appears to backtrack on Beirut explosion cause after White House pushback
By Ryan Browne, CNN
Updated 3:21 PM ET, Sun August 9, 2020
Washington (CNN) -- Defense Secretary Mark Esper is downplaying any differences he had with the White House's assessment as to what caused the deadly explosion in Beirut after his speculation that the blast was likely the result of an accident drew push back from the White House.
"The bottom line is we still don't know" what caused the explosion, Esper told Fox News in an interview that aired this weekend.
"On the first day, as President Trump rightly said, we thought it might have been an attack, some of us speculated it could have been, for example, a Hezbollah arms shipment that blew up, maybe a Hezbollah bomb making facility, who knows?" Esper said, adding that the media was trying to stoke division between himself and President Donald Trump.
Despite his comments that some were speculating that the explosion may have involved an attack, several defense officials told CNN on Tuesday the US military did not have any information pointing to an attack, an assessment echoed by Esper on Wednesday when he said most believed it to be an accident.
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Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/09/politics/mark-esper-beirut-lebanon-explosion-explanation/index.html
What we have here is a failure to kiss ass.
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Agitated that his toadies weren't properly shoring up the supports on his little stick-boy fantasy world?
Gosh that whole f***ing routine isn't getting old or anything 
Does putin own ALL THESE FUCKERS????
standards, values, grit, and chutzpah, eh
Give me a Dr. Fiona Hill/Marie Yovanovitch/Sally Yates any day of the week, you pathetic sad weenie LOSERS 
