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NEW: The 150 casualty number did not come from a general as the president told NBC, but came from Pentagon lawyers drafting a worst-case scenario figure hours after an earlier briefing of POTUS. The 150 figure was not cleared w Shanahan nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/…
The number was given to WHCO Cipollone, and White House lawyers passed it on to POTUS. That figure helped compel the president to call off the strike at the last minute nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/…
Throughout Friday, several senior admin officials said that a 150 number came in late but they didn't know why it wasn't shared earlier. Hard to overstate how little the White House has wanted to engage on what happened with a potential mil strike nytimes.com/2019/06/21/us/…
