EXCERPT:
BRENNAN: "Andrea, I don’t know who actually carried out the attack or authorized it, but I have two main concerns. One is, if a country had authorized or conducted the attack, I think it’s beyond the norms in terms of the practices that states should engage in, in terms of assassinating the senior officials of other government. Israel and Iran are not in a state of war. So just the way we would condemn, vigorously, any type of assassination carried out by Russia or China or any other country, we should do it when there’s a senior government official of a sovereign state who's assassinated. Secondly, though, as we’re going through this very, very important transition from one administration to the other, we want to make sure that there’s not going to some type of escalation of tensions in the Middle East that could lead to some type of confrontation.”