Pompeo pushed officials to find way to justify $8B Saudi arms sale: CNN

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged State Department officials to look for a way to legally justify the Trump administration’s use of an emergency declaration to sell more than $8 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates without congressional approval, CNN reported.”They seemed to have a game plan and it had to be justified,” an official who reported the incident to the now-dismissed State Department inspector…