During testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Services Committee this week, Republican Senator Rand Paul cornered Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the U.S. droning of an Afghan aid worker.
Blinken, like the White House, won't admit to the situation and continues to cite an "ongoing investigation" to determine who was killed.
"The administration is of course reviewing that strike and I'm sure that a full assessment is coming," Blinken said. "I don't know because we are reviewing it."
.@RandPaul to Secretary Blinken: "You'd think you'd kind of know before you off somebody with a predator drone whether he's an aid worker, or he's in ISIS-K." pic.twitter.com/5swbaGFKPz
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 14, 2021
When the strike was first announced by the Pentagon, officials claimed the target was an ISIS-K member planning an attack on U.S. troops in Kabul and that the drone strike caused secondary explosions from "explosives in a vehicle." They've maintained that position for weeks.
Biden's @PentagonPresSec John Kirby -- they just like lie sociopaths, not even blinking: pic.twitter.com/tGNCskSKQA
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 10, 2021
But the evidence and the Pentagon's behavior in the aftermath, proves otherwise.
Ahmadi was a 14-year employee of Nutrition & Education International, a U.S. NGO that fights malnutrition. He helped start up soy factories, repair machinery, transport his colleagues and distribute food from his Corolla to displaced Afghans. pic.twitter.com/S7r1TyHBs0
— Evan Hill (@evanhill) September 10, 2021