{"id":751738,"date":"2021-09-14T14:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=751738"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:20:23","slug":"you-think-youd-kind-of-know-before-you-off-somebody-with-a-predator-drone-rand-paul-blasts-blinken-on-drone-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-think-youd-kind-of-know-before-you-off-somebody-with-a-predator-drone-rand-paul-blasts-blinken-on-drone-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You Think You\u2019d Kind Of Know Before You Off Somebody With A Predator Drone\u2019: Rand Paul Blasts Blinken On Drone Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">42<\/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%2Fyou-think-youd-kind-of-know-before-you-off-somebody-with-a-predator-drone-rand-paul-blasts-blinken-on-drone-strike%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=751738&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-14-at-12.30.56-PM-e1631642969971.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Tuesday\u2019s hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Paul challenged Blinken on reports that a drone strike carried out by the United States had accidentally killed an aid worker and his family, rather than an ISIS-K operator. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/08\/rand-paul-shreds-fauci-allegedly-lying-covid-19\/\">(RELATED: Rand Paul Accuses Fauci Of \u2018Lying Dozens Of Times\u2019 After Bombshell Report)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paul began his time by noting that he had long been an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/09\/13\/rand-paul-theres-no-winnable-solution-in-afghanistan-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">outspoken advocate<\/a> of ending the war in Afghanistan, but pivoted immediately to criticize the way the United States had <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/13\/joe-biden-antony-blinken-afghanistan-withdrawal-testimony-polling-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pulled out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever in my worst nightmares did anyone or conceive of such a colossal incompetence,\u201d Paul said, decrying the choice to abandon Bagram Air Base and billions of dollars worth of weaponry and equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t we have some prohibition against giving aid and comfort to the enemy?\u201d he went on, condemning the decision to release aid money to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Paul noted there were still billions of dollars set aside for the Afghan government. \u201cCan you pledge today without equivocation that the administration will not release any of this money to the Taliban?\u201d he asked Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsent the Taliban making good on the commitments and expectations of the international community that I\u2019ve outlined previously, that\u2019s correct,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/antony-blinken-afghanistan-evacuation-vetting-afghan-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blinken<\/a> replied.<\/p>\n<p>Paul then turned to the reported drone strike and asked Blinken whether the person killed was an aid worker or an ISIS-K operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe administration is, of course, reviewing that that strike, and I\u2019m sure a full assessment will be forthcoming,\u201d Blinken replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know if it was an aid worker or an ISIS operative?\u201d Paul pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak to that,\u201d Blinken said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you don\u2019t know or won\u2019t tell us,\u201d Paul continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Blinken replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou think you\u2019d kind of know before you off somebody with a Predator drone, whether he\u2019s an aid worker or he\u2019s an ISIS-K,\u201d Paul replied. \u201cIf it\u2019s true, but I see these pictures of these beautiful children that were killed in the attack, if that\u2019s true and not propaganda. If that\u2019s true, guess what maybe you created hundreds or thousands of new potential terrorists from bombing the wrong people, so you gotta know we can\u2019t sort of have an investigation after we kill people, we have an investigation before we kill people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul confronted Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Tuesday\u2019s hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.Paul challenged Blinken on reports that a drone strike carried out &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751738","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}