{"id":2520144,"date":"2025-12-11T13:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bennie-thompson-dubs-national-guard-shootings-unfortunate-accident\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T18:04:45","slug":"bennie-thompson-dubs-national-guard-shootings-unfortunate-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bennie-thompson-dubs-national-guard-shootings-unfortunate-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Bennie Thompson dubs National Guard shootings &#8216;unfortunate accident&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbennie-thompson-dubs-national-guard-shootings-unfortunate-accident%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2520144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem strongly criticized Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, for describing the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. last month as an &#8220;unfortunate accident.&#8221; During a hearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cia-director-says-pulling-troops-from-afghanistan-presents-significant-risk\/\" title=\"CIA Director says pulling troops from Afghanistan presents \u2018significant risk\u2019\">worldwide threats<\/a>, Thompson referred too the November 26 incident-which resulted in the murder of National Guard member Sarah Beckstrom and injury of Andrew Wolfe-as an &#8220;unfortunate accident&#8221; and later as an &#8220;unfortunate situation&#8221; while questioning noem about the shooter&#8217;s immigration status. Noem sharply responded by calling it a terrorist attack, emphasizing that the shooter shot the Guardsmen in the head. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) also rebuked Thompson for his comments,calling them disrespectful. The suspect, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, was admitted to the U.S. during the 2021 Kabul withdrawal and was granted asylum in April.The hearing is part of an annual briefing intended to inform lawmakers about major international threats to the United States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Noem rebuts Democrat who called National Guard shooting &lsquo;unfortunate accident&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2422484\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kristi-noem\">Kristi Noem<\/a> rebuked the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday for labeling the shootings of two <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/national-guard\">National Guard<\/a> members in Washington, D.C, last month an &ldquo;unfortunate accident.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a hearing on worldwide threats before lawmakers Thursday, Rep. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bennie-thompson\">Bennie Thompson<\/a> (D-MS) characterized the murder of one National Guard member, Sarah Beckstrom, and injury of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-takes-aim-at-entire-gop-after-accusing-cruz-of-trying-to-get-me-killed\/\" title=\"Ocasio-Cortez Takes Aim At Entire GOP After Accusing Cruz Of \u2018Trying To Get Me Killed\u2019\">fellow member<\/a>, Andrew Wolfe, on Nov. 26 as an &ldquo;unfortunate accident,&rdquo; and later called it an &ldquo;unfortunate situation&rdquo; as he posed a question to Noem about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-report-on-trump-assassination-attempt-reveals-chilling-details\/\" title=\"New ...ort on Trump assassination attempt reveals &#039;chilling&#039; details\">suspected shooter&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s immigration status.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3914713\/david-trone-eyes-house-after-failed-maryland-senate-campaign\/\">David Trone eyes his old House seat after failed Maryland Senate run<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3914522\/pat-ryan-patriotic-pac-fire-hegseth-website\/\">Pat Ryan uses new Patriotic PAC to launch &#8216;Fire Hegseth&#8217; website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3913907\/bipartisan-group-discharge-petition-force-vote-obamacare-subsidies\/\">Bipartisan group files discharge petition to force vote on Obamacare subsidies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;You and the gentlemen from the [National Counterterrorism Center] referenced the unfortunate accident that occurred with the National Guardsmen and killed,&rdquo; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Noem jumped in and responded, &ldquo;You think that was an unfortunate accident?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a terrorist attack,&rdquo; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, I&rsquo;ll get it straight,&rdquo; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He shot our National Guardsmen in the head,&rdquo; Noem said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Look, Mr. Chairman, will you direct the witness to allow me to ask my question. It was an unfortunate situation,&rdquo; Thompson said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680; Rep. Bennie Thompson refers to the terrorist attack against two National Guardsmen in DC as an &#8220;unfortunate accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sec. Noem: &#8220;Unfortunate accident? It was a terroist attack. They shot our Guardsmen in the head.&#8221; <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/34YtPrVteF\">pic.twitter.com\/34YtPrVteF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1999145717063962959?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>Moments later, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) interrupted and rebuked Thompson for his comments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Point of order, Mr. Chairman,&rdquo; Ogles said. &ldquo;That was a murder that took place in D.C. It was not an unfortunate incident. And those comments are effin&rsquo; disrespectful. I expect better.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) responded that Ogles&rsquo;s interruption was not a valid point of order.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested and have charged 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal of Bellingham, Washington, with murder.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/national-security\/3913107\/us-to-begin-screening-social-media-foreign-tourists\/\">U.S. TO BEGIN SCREENING SOCIAL MEDIA OF FOREIGN TOURISTS FROM 42 VISA WAIVER COUNTRIES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lakanwal was admitted into the United States amid the 2021 Kabul withdrawal and was approved for asylum in April during the Trump administration, which is why Thompson had attempted to ask Noem why her department had approved his application.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >annual worldwide threats hearing<\/a> is conducted by the House Homeland Security Committee and is intended to brief lawmakers on the biggest concerns to the United States from outside the nation&rsquo;s borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noem rebukes Dem for calling Guard shooting &#8216;unfortunate accident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2655,"featured_media":2520145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ap-19065606573087-e1765471516716.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[35145,37479,6744],"class_list":["post-2520144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bennie-thompson","tag-national-guard","tag-shootings"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/ap-19065606573087-e1765471516716.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2520148,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520144\/revisions\/2520148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2520145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}