SEATTLE—The Customs and Border Protection agency’s top official, in a rare admission of misconduct, said Tuesday that agents should not have detained Iranian Americans at the U.S.-Canada border last month. The detentions occurred just after Qassem Soleimani, a high-ranking Iranian military general, was killed in a U.S. strike in Baghdad on Jan. 2. “I would say in that one instance leadership got a little overzealous, and we corrected that right away,” he said. On Friday, Jason Givens, an agency spokesman in Seattle, declined a request from The Seattle Times to interview Fasano. Givens said at the time that reports of such detentions were false, and blamed delays on short staffing and other factors.

Source: thestar February 12, 2020 00:11 UTC