Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was the one Congressional leader who went “gloves off” in grilling Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday over the US drone strike in Kabul last month which came in the final days of the chaotic evacuation and troop pullout.
The Pentagon has continued this week to defend the Aug.29 attack which it says was against an ISIS-K target in the vehicle which was utterly destroyed. This despite a detailedĀ New York TimesĀ investigationĀ which found it killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, with the original target likely being an aid worker and not a terrorist at all. The most heated moment of the exchange came with Sen. Paul asked Blinken directly,Ā “Was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?”Ā To which Blinken respondedĀ “I don’t know,”Ā and said the strike was still being reviewed internally.
Sen. @RandPaul: "The guy the Biden administration droned: was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?"
Sec. Blinken: "I don't know because we're reviewing it."
Sen. Paul: "You'd think you'd kind of know before you off somebody with a predator drone." pic.twitter.com/kGWSuTySho
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 14, 2021
