{"id":795005,"date":"2021-09-20T14:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=795005"},"modified":"2021-09-20T14:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T18:28:39","slug":"psaki-dodges-on-consequences-for-botched-kabul-airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-on-consequences-for-botched-kabul-airstrike\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Dodges On Consequences For Botched Kabul Airstrike"},"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\">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%2Fpsaki-dodges-on-consequences-for-botched-kabul-airstrike%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=795005&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><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged questions about whether there will be any consequences for U.S. military officials following a botched drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 innocents, including seven children, in August.<\/p>\n<p>While the Pentagon initially reported that the drone strike on a white Toyota Corolla had killed \u201cat least one\u201d ISIS-K terrorist, it <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/central-command-investigation-confirms-afghanistan-us-drone-strike-killed-innocent-family-no-isis-k-fighters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admitted Friday<\/a> that the U.S. had fired on the wrong target. In fact, the missile <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/joe-biden-fda-milley-drone-strike-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dispatched zero terrorists<\/a>, instead killing an Afghan native who had worked with U.S.-based humanitarian groups, along with members of his family. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) stated Friday that he did not anticipate any disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki detailed President Joe Biden\u2019s response when he learned the strike killed civilians, but dodged on the question of any consequences. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/flashback-watch-chairman-mark-milley-lie-five-times-in-one-minute-about-the-infamous-isis-k-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: FLASHBACK: Watch Chairman Mark Milley Lie Five Times In One Minute About The Infamous ISIS-K Strike)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was the president\u2019s response when he learned about that?\u201d a reporter asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s view \u2014 and all of our view \u2014 is that the loss of any civilian life is a tragedy, as was made clear in the comments by the secretary of defense, and by General McKenzie,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cThis was done in error, and clearly the investigation that will continue is something the president broadly supports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporter then pressed Paski on whether there would be any consequences for military officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think what\u2019s important is that the secretary of defense and Gen. McKenzi came forward and made very clear that they wanted to see [the investigation] move forward quickly, they want it to be as transparent as possible,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also important to note what the circumstances were here when this strike was made. This was a scenario where there were direct threats from ISIS-K against our troops who were on the ground in Afghanistan,\u201d she added. \u201cObviously there was a horrific tragedy that happened, but I\u2019m not going to predict what the impact will be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"White House press secretary Jen Psaki holds a briefing | 9\/20\/21\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/46vdOGUGnRA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. carried out the strike on August 29 in reaction to the bombing of U.S. service members at the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI offer my condolences to the family and friends of those killed. This strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to forces at the airport. It was a mistake and I offer my sincere apology. As a commander, I\u2019m fully responsible for this strike and its tragic outcome,\u201d McKenzie told reporters in a Friday press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki dodged questions about whether there will be any consequences for U.S. military officials following a botched drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 innocents, &#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-795005","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\/795005","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=795005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795005\/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=795005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}