Was Soleimani drawn into an ambush by the U.S. through diplomatic channels?
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/01/05/breaking-confirmed-solemeini-killed-on-diplomatic-mission-to-iraq-to-receive-trump-pompeo-missive/

Unfortunately, but not so unsurprisingly, that doesn't seem to even cross the radar screen for a lot of bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran folks, and if it does it's more or less relegated to non-issue (i.e., so what) status.

Former CIA officer tells the Ron Paul Institute in an interview that Soleimani posed "no threat" to the U.S.

US leaders lied about Gen. Soleimani: Former CIA officer

There’s no such thing as an “Ex-“CIA officer.  Any more than there is a such thing as an ex-gambino crime family member.  You don’t retire from the CIA.  You remain an asset until death.  So this article is more CIA propaganda.  Being an ex-CIA officer doesn’t bolster your credibility.  It diminishes it.  The CIA gave Amazon $600million in 2016 for an unknown contract.  Jeff Bezos turned around and purchased the Washington Post for $350million.  The Post immediately started pumping out fake news stories about Trump. They were the progenitor of 95% of the fake stories about Trump.  The rest of the media followed along and covered the same stories, but the Post was almost always the first to publish the fake news stories.  Bottom line, don’t trust what CIA officers tell you.  Not that it’s ALWAYS untrue.  Just that they clearly are running a massive propaganda machine with the intention of lying, misleading, and manipulating the minds if the public, in order to get them in line with their hidden agenda, which is important enough to them to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in one year.

.  Bottom line, don’t trust what CIA officers tell you.  Not that it’s ALWAYS untrue.

So these are the same people telling us Soleimani was an "imminent threat" to the U.S. and attacking our embassy.

And we're supposed to buy into that, but one of their own tells us it's total bs. So which is it? Who's lying?

How bout the people who so far have given us no credible evidence to suggest Soleimani was even remotley an "imminent threat" and had to be murdered? And we're supposed to believe them but this ex-CIA operative is lying against people who can't even prove what they're propagating? Whom are you really going to trust on this issue?

My money is on the ex-CIA guy. You even said it's not always untrue.

You know, maybe sometimes people have seen so much bs they just don't care anymore. Maybe some people have had enough and are willing to take the consequences of telling things the way it is. The Church is full of martyrs and saints who made those choices and were part of regimes and empires who made the ultimate sacrifice in presenting the TRUTH.


Maybe you shouldn't just go so far to pidgin-hole every single CIA member or ex-member as having no scruples or credibility, they're are plenty of "ex-mafia" men who put their a** on the line to expose the system, yea many were threatened and face life in jail or being whacked, but not all. So you have to remember, these guys are human like everyone else. Not everyone is a bold-faced liar because they worked in the top intelligence of this country. Some actually have morals and a love of the truth.

Fact or fiction?
 Murderer of Soleimani Killed in US Plane Downing in Afghanistan; Report
By IFP Editorial Staff

Russian intelligence sources have confirmed that Michael D’ Andrea, the head of US intelligence operations against Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, has been killed in Taliban’s shoot-down of a US military plane in Ghazni.

January 28, 2020 "Information Clearing House" -  The downed plane was the mobile CIA command for Michael D’ Andrea, and now, America’s most advanced spy platform and mobile command centre with all equipment and docuмents are in Taliban’s hands.
De Andrea, who was responsible for the assassination of Iran’s top commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, was apparently among the officers on board the plane, the Veterans Today website reports, quoting Russian intelligence sources.
Also known as Ayatollah Mike, D’Andrea is the most prominent figure of the CIA intelligence in the region.
Since 2017, D’ Andrea has run the CIA’s fαℓѕє fℓαg and assassination programs in the Middle East, allegedly responsible not only for the murder of General Soleimani but the killing of 300 Iraqi demonstrators as well.
The US military has acknowledged the loss of a Bombardier/Northrop Grumman E-11A plane in central Afghanistan. They added that they have not found any “indication” that the aircraft was downed.
The aircraft crashed in Ghazni city area on Monday. An investigation into the incident is underway and the military will provide further information when its available, a spokesman for the US force in Afghanistan, Col. Sonny Leggett has tweeted.
The official also dismissed Taliban claims that another aircraft had crashed in the country, describing them as “false.” Earlier in the day, the Taliban said that a military helicopter went down in the east of the country shortly after the plane crash. The militant group did not provide any details of the alleged incident, nor did they specify to whom the helicopter belonged.
There has been some confusion as to whether Taliban militants have claimed responsibility for the plane crash. Their initial statement in Pushtu only stated that the plane had gone down.
The Bombardier/Northrop Grumman E-11A is a surveillance and communications plane. Footage from the scene showing the wreckage has been circulating on social media, and photos that appear to show a plane with the same serial number have been unearthed.
Videos showed the shell of the plane ablaze on the ground. It was largely destroyed in the fire with only its tail section surviving the crash.
Journalists have made it to the scene of a plane crash in Afghanistan, snapping pictures of the wreckage and even some docuмents. It comes as the US Air Force’s chief of staff all but confirmed the loss of the military plane.
Footage from the scene shows that the aircraft burned upon the impact, with only its tail section remaining largely intact.