Rand Paul Grills Blinken on Report US Drone Strike in Afghanistan Killed an Aid Worker
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken over a report that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed an aid worker. Paul asked Blinken during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, “The guy the Biden…
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken over a report that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed an aid worker.
Paul asked Blinken during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, “The guy the Biden administration droned: was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative?”
“The administration is of course reviewing that strike and I’m sure that a full assessment will be forthcoming,” Blinken said.
When the Kentucky senator asked again, Blinken said he could not share that information in a public setting.
He asked, “So you don’t know or won’t tell us?”
“I don’t know because we’re reviewing it,” Blinken
Paul fired back, “Well, see you think you’d kind of know before you off somebody with a predator drone whether he’s an aid worker or he is an ISIS-K ”
He continued, “I don’t know if it’s true, but I see these pictures of these beautiful children that were killed in the attack. If that’s true, and not propaganda. If that’s true, guess what, maybe you created hundreds or thousands of new potential terrorists from bombing the wrong people.”
“So you gotta know who you’re… we can’t sorta have an investigation after we kill people. We have an investigation before we kill ,” he added.