Kentucky Senator Rand Paul caught Secretary of State Anthony Blinken off-guard when he asked him about the target of a U.S. drone attack near Kabul airport. Blinken noted the investigation about who was killed is ongoing, which begged the follow-up question from Senator Paul: “Don’t you think you should know who you are going to kill before you kill them?”
killing innocent family …war crime ?????? hmmmmm
Barry killed US citizens with drone strikes..nothing happened to him
Right!
And Blinken worked under Susan Rice.
Obama 2.0
Rice is part of Obama’s shadow gov’t and insider at the Resident’s WH…just steps away to help control their puppet.
You think ISIS and al qaedaarent using it to recruit. Joe Biden has five decades in government and has been wrong about every nat sec and foreign policy issue. Blinken is almost the buffoon Biden is and his the face of a department that is essentially rogue and ignores the executive branch. I have no pity for Blinken let him roast. I’m more concerned about how we address a rogue agency like DOS and the IC.
Of course, and of course, nothing will happen … the stupid boobs had to kill somebody after that massive failure of theirs that let the Taliban (& ISIS-K) kill so many people in Kabul (supposedly by a rogue terrorist … riiiiiiight).
If that inept s.o.s. was honest, he would say, “We had to kill somebody!”
Oh no, it’s the fog of war so we get a pass?
Dr. Paul isn’t always 100% (who is?) but he certainly has his moments. Go Rand!
100%
He sure doesn’t run from his responsibilities, the man has been shot at, beaten up obtaining serious injuries, and chased down the streets of DC while out w/his wife. Others that were asked to serve ran away when chanted down in restaurants. Rand is a strong and tough man, plenty of people would have left office or chosen not to run again. And yeah, he has had some moments where he was a weenie, but for the good stuff he gets Kudos.
He is my Senator and has my utmost respect. The other one? My utmost disgust.
BOOM!
Maybe. But even if so, I would add: followed by an immediate fizzle into oblivion. Next exchange please. 6 minutes. OK. You’re finished. Next. OK. Thank. Good points, good questions. Like the fist pounding and emotion. Next. Next. Next…. into oblivion….
Click on highlights to be taken to fund raising page. Reminiscent of Trey Gowdy…Daryl Issa… Jason Chaffetz more.
Lights, camera…no action ;-(
He said Ciaramella in front of the media but he wouldn’t say it in front of John Roberts. That says it all. They’re all Ted Cruz. They’re all Lindsay Graham. Josh Hawley endorsed JD Vance today. Many people love both of them. They won’t see until the food lines start… even then some will believe the Republicans are interested in stopping it…
Not if bodies start dropping…virus ?
BOOM goes the tweet.
Rand “totally destroys the narrative” man! we’re in the home stretch NOW!
Sundance’s posts recently have been fantastic re: the fourth state and Pentagon.
I wonder if this is a move against the Obama faction.
Are Milley and Austin and Blinken on Team Obama?
*edit*
I say this because Menedez and Obama have not been the best of friends. I have heard that Menedez’s troubles were due to Barry. But I do not know that for sure.
https://www.newsweek.com/meet-obamas-frenemy-sen-bob-menendez-305153
there is an old saying “the friend of my friend is my enemy”!! remember when menendez was being prosecuted and lindsey graham testified on behalf of Menendez’s “esteemible character”!!
Herod and Pilot who had previously not been on the best of terms* became friends over the crucifixion of Jesus. So some people’s friendship is as unstable as water.
*see Historian Josephus
DoD is not team Obama.
I still think Trump should openly offer a full pardon, should he ever serve a second term, to any senior military officer who dumps the entire contents of their email and documents to an FTP drive in the next 24 hours.
Although you have to assume they’ve been promised a cushy retirement in exchange for being the fall guy and keep their mouth shut, you never know which underlings were not, which guy has stage 4 cancer and wants to finally confess because they can’t be threatened with arkancide, or which might have a sudden spark of patriotism to tell all anyway.
SOMEONE SOMEWHERE could blow the whole thing wide open on their way out.
Not impressed. He’s just a neutered Big Bad Wolf: I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll send a lotta hot air your way!
Wake me up when Rand actually DOES something!
All talk, no ACTION, like all the RINOS.
My feelings exactly.
Rooster Head 2.0
there are supposedly 50 of our guys…50 of theirs; outside of the leaders Schumer & McConnell…the most important Senator is Manchin and he does get things accomplished! What other accomplishments have you been following since January?
You want Rand Paul to be the the legislator, jury, judge and executor.
Yeah, I could go with that. He is a thoroughly moral man as nearly as I can tell, and I admire him very much.
I just wish that he had forced the Senate to recess and hamstrung McTurdle.
No one in Congress has da authoriti
Ya gotten love these sessions where the perp is told it is a yes or no question. They proceed with a run out the clock non answer, when halted and reminded of the two options they restart with the same malarky.
And then they finish with “I can’t say that in this forum”. Kabuki!!!!
Practiced political speak. Never, ever answer a yes or no. Ever!
They all have drinks together after the “hearing”. Then it’s off for an interview on Fox or CNN.
Rand is just playing his role
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Yes! He is the new Trey Gowdy.
Except w/curly hair instead of a strange pointed do.
Trey Gowdy-ish, but smart and more effective at planting seeds of truth and information into the mindless brains of people that will take a minute to listen. I am liking him more and more, especially his spars with Fauci. He seems to be the only one that make the worm, Fauci, squirm.
V in V for Vendetta also claimed to merely play his role.
All of these Rebublican Senators should be criss crossing their home, whipping up demonstrations, political protests and providing leadership to unseat and remove the infestation of Chicoms making themselves at home at our Universities and local government. These are the very leaders that KNOW all the political power players in their home state…Let them earn their pay check by cleaning up their home state…
With the Clowns In Action and all other intelligence agencies removed who is investigating this drone strike ?
It won’t be long and Osama will release billions more to terrorist like he did with Iran
The investigators are all on bended knee saying all-hail the chief.
Interesting to note they are claiming that the machinery left was not all functional and what’s left will be unusable shortly. What a joke! We trained people over there. Are they saying all the afgans that left (who they have no idea who or what they are) were the workers we trained to keep the machinery going? For that matter, how many taliban did we train to fix and use the equipment? Of course, the machinery will be fixed by them as well as any other country that wants to buy them. Stop treating the American people like idiots.
I doubt the Russians or Chinese cannot repair or even re-engineer the equipment. Blinken resorts to his first hand knowledge that only his Ferrari mechanic can fix his car
Eh….tired of the showboating. Tired of no accountability.
Me too
When there is no accountability, what is there?
Congress hides behind the ‘nothing we can do’. Exactly why are they wasting time and money if its all for show and nothing more. Sure it sounds and looks good but in the meantime Biden is getting away with murdering people and our country. If you can’t do anything about this then do something about something you can do something about.
Agreed. I’ve seen this show too often. I want action not words. Accountability. Enough performances.
Every day, Congress makes me regret Jan 6th wasn’t what they falsly portray it as.
Just think what an armed, tactical team COULD have done; rid us of a traitorous, corrupt Congress, once and for all.
Hang em all, from the bannister of the Capital Rotunda,…or perhaps better, strip each one to their underwear, and tar and feather them, and ride em on a rail, while broadcasting it.
THATS what our Founders would have done.
Its what they DESERVE, but alas, it will never happen.
Just say “No, I WILL NOT COMPLY!” To withdraw our consent, and deprive them of the power they crave, is the best we can hope for.
I hear ya. I just can’t condone violence.
May the TRUTH of that day come out. May those who are being held as political prisoners be freed and made whole.
And may the REAL perps be brought to justice!
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The phrase “If you’re woke you’re a loser” comes to mind.
This guy is below the bottom of the barrel. Fits right in.
Here’s Cruz “grilling “Blinken. My view at this point: What does it matter? Lots of bluster and strong words, which ultimately fizzle out and nothing comes of it. The left gets things done. The right, not so much.
https://therightscoop.com/ted-cruz-grills-blinken-on-afghan-withdrawal-and-the-lists-of-americans-they-turned-over-to-the-taliban/
I don’t know if Blinken’s last name could be anymore apropos. The guy is always blinking and clueless. Never seen anyone so nervous since Susan Rice.
Of all the galactic-class maroons inhabiting the Halls Of Power in DC at the moment, Blinken is at the top of the heap. He must be a genuine ignoramus; nobody could play-act stupid at his level for long.
The Bidenites went out of their way, to appoint the dumbest admin in recent history.
The whole bunch, all together aren’t as smart as a 5th grader, and may not prevail in a contest with a bag of rocks.
At the very 1st Republican debate in 2015…you remember the one where Jebbie Bush appeared SO LOW ENERGY…Rand Paul looked to me like he had learned a lot hanging with his old man…one of the very best republican congressmen of the past 50 years. WAY TO GO…SENATOR; you will have my support!
Rand Paul made numerous good points. And Blinken knows all he has to do is sit through those few minutes and he’s good to go. And that’s that. Next!
Well, let’s see, we have Generalisimo Mark Milley who was ready to use nukes on us Deplorables back in January for objecting to the stolen election (which I’m sure he had a hand in), and we have the Pentagon killing whomever, whenever with drone strikes.
Folks, I think we are no longer in a Cold Civil War, but a Hot Civil War…..evidently somebody didn’t get the memo.
Senator Paul: “Don’t you think you should know who you are going to kill before you kill them?” (GEE, YA THINK?)
I think some of you give Rand a bad rap: he is one of the few who has consistently spoken out against this war and other reckless foreign incursions.
Too many look for perfection ,only!
Nice that Rand is ranting but as usual he is all show and is after the WRONG person. Blimken is the wrong guy as INTEL or Military conducted the engagement.
The State Department does not control targeting..they only “define” rules of engagement.
This is a question Austin and Milley need to be asked, with follow up to where ever they point the finger, to include the White House and Obama’s Call to Duty Drone controller as well as who ever called in the mission (the Taliban were doing the targeting, US INTEL Community).
“…they only “define” rules of engagement.”
In the US today does the State Dep’t do this largely on their own or do they primarily implement the President’s decision on rules of engagement?
The State Department has defined rules of Engagement for the US since the Vietnam War, especially in what is now called “Operations Other Than War”. Afghanistan falls into this category as did Vietnam as well as Operation Desert Storm I and II.
They are supposed to make these decisions in concert with a whole host of Executive Branch Agencies in a process of “risk assessment”. Of course Obama and his call to Duty Drone plinker operate on a separate set of perverted WHIMS (not rules).
I’m sorry, but I will say this here as well. Let’s start putting pieces together and stop wailing over the now increasingly obvious misdirections.
Blincken, Milley, Baghram, Afghan “translators” [wink wink], abandoned Americans, SQUIRREL!!!! Come on, man! [to coin a phrase] No one is that incompetent, that driven by ideology to the point of self immolation.
They stumble and face plant, then go on TV to puke all over themselves, just a bit too dramatically. They sell their supposed stupidity a little too hard. Well, Blncken, he may be legitimately stupid. He may be a stooge they all laugh at behind his back, just like they do Old Joe. At any rate, I’m not buying it. So, what’s going on?
Try this. Suppose the abandonment of Afghanistan in such a FUBAR way is just misdirection. What if this is just the first move in a bigger plan? If the Obama bots with an affinity for Iran who run Biden wanted Iran to get nukes fast, how might they accomplish that?
Maybe you transfer $80 billion of American arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan, which they can use to arm the Taliban in Pakistan to formalize their ownership of the Pakistani government, maybe secretly. Once they do that, they put Paki nukes on trucks, maybe secretly, maybe on abandoned US military trucks (hello Lojack) and send them to Iran. This all happens in months, not years or decades.
Now, game that out. Because even that is just the beginning.
And a very big point that Sen. Paul seems to make in passing: “It wasn’t just you – Obama ‘droned’ hundreds of people.”
Yeah, maybe if you’re far enough away from it and doing it all by machine, it just doesn’t feel like murder anymore. ?♂️
If they’re terrorists what’s wrong with drones? We launch all diff kinds of missiles from thousands of miles away. What’s the point of having the most advanced weaponry but insisting on fighting hand to hand?
How about if we worry more about where we’re fighting, and what we’re fighting about, and if we’re doing it for the right reasons, than about whether we use machinery.
Great job by Paul! But once again, without free elections it can never matter. There are $80 billion in Afghanistan and more deaths there because of fraudulent elections in the US.
War crime. He should be arrested.
Mr. I voted to certify Joe Biden for President has to say something again.
Not too long ago I used to think harsh rhetoric was better then nothing.
Always great questioning by Repubs, yet not a *ucking thing will happen or change…
Blinken’s like a stuttering shoe salesman who’s afraid to tell Hillary they don’t make Pradas in a 12 Wide.
This Bolshevik Coup turning the country into the USSA isn’t going to be stopped let alone reversed by “The Suits” in DC or elsewhere. It’s all a “set up” to provoke patriots or keep them waiting, either way the democRat Bolsheviks win.
But even the best laid traps can fail. How we survive this I confess is beyond my comprehension but this song sums up my emotional response:
Upon reflection I found a lot of what Paul had to say too polite. To say that sending the Taliban money would be a bad idea is a bit of an understatement, is it not?
I’d like to see some of our guys, at the very least, spit it out. Say this administration has used tax payer money to fund the very people we’ve been fighting for decades, that the administration is funding the enemy and in so doing aligning themselves with the enemy against the American people, and that this level of incompetence (which would be bad enough) across various depts suggests there is an agenda afoot. Etc.
To say one hopes they don’t send money to the Taliban because it would be a bad idea is cutting something utterly incomprehensibe and monumental in scale down to a small bite size. Which is absurd on its face. Why is our team always so tame and understated? I mean, it’s not as if the country isn’t being dismantled before our eyes or anything like like that. No need for any sense of urgency, eh guys?
All of our elections are fraudulent, a lie. Everything else is meaningless.
CA will tell if the will of We the People was able to overcome both voter and election fraud.
All I know is if CA goes down any Red State Rep that uses these vote flipping machines is traitor to all mankind.
“our list of allies grows thin”.
……….and yet their is only one ally we can all depend upon.
Well, based on the VARES, Joseph Stolen is killing many more with his illegal mandates to get jabbed or lose your job.
I don’t bother watching these grand stand soap opera hearing anymore. Nobody is ever held accountable that’s why. Businesses as usual in the district of corruption.
All these Senators use their time for speeches and statements instead of asking pointed questions and letting the invited member of the administration answer them for the record.
They all do that. The only difference is the D senators usually lie and gaslight the public way, way more while speechifying.
As for this particular clip…
Grandstanding is all Rand Paul known for. Not impressed.
I see people bitchin about Rand Paul. People saying he doesn’t DO anything. Please, I’m begging ya, what should Rand Paul DO, that he is not doing?? I’m being serious. Can someone please answer this? From here it doesn’t look like Republicans do much of anything. At this point Joe Manchin looks like he does more. But what should they do.
Instead of “shoot first, and ask questions later” its drone them, then obsfuscate and cover up!”
There has long been questions/complaints about the drone program, including WERE they truly “getting the bad guys”, and this sure looks like an order came down “Drone,…SOMEBODY, anybody just so the Pres can look like he’s doing something, after his bad PR from the rout,..er “withdrawal”.
Bugout, more like it. Like the Patriot act, the drone “program” just seems like its an open invitation to abuse.
Already been used on American citisens on foreign soil, how long till its used on “Domestic Terrorists”?
“Don’t you think you should know who you are going to kill before you kill them?”
Somehow, that seems like a rhetorical question considering that the current occupant of the White House probably wakes up some afternoons not knowing who or where he is.
How do you know when there will be no accountability? If there are Congressional hearings.
Rand….. we’ve heard that argument before….you know, don’t invade Afghanistan to go after AlQ who had become a govt department or you might create terrorists ….. send in the Peace Corp, Rand.
Second point: mistakes that kill civilians in war are common, despite the US military’s attempts not to do so, they sometimes fail.
If you can’t accept mistakes that kill civilians you can never go to war about anything ever Rand….
Grow up.
“I shot an arrow into the air/It fell to earth I know not where…”
Just another Day at the Capitol Theater.
Don’t forget your hats and coats and a final stop at the snack bar on your way out.
Rand the Bland can go pound Sand since he didn’t want the Senate to all take a 5 minute potty break at the same time.
Blinken worked under Susan Rice.
I agree with Richard Grenell….Susan Rice pulling the strings.
Obama 2.0
I sense another strongly worded letter coming.
They are nothing if not predictable, aren’t they?
Article about the hearing with video of several Senators. Send Ron Johnson included in this one with Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.
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WATCH: Blinken grilled by top Senate Republicans on Afghanistan chaos
https://dennismichaellynch.com/watch-blinken-grilled-by-top-senate-republicans-on-afghanistan-chaos/
EPIC! Blinken Destroyed! Army Vet Rep. Greg Steubbe Rips Secretary of State: “Even in Your Opening Statement, You Can’t Be Honest” (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/epic-blinken-destroyed-army-vet-rep-greg-steubbe-rips-secretary-state-even-opening-statement-cant-honest-video/
“Who Cuts Off – President’s Microphone?” – Senator Risch Grills Blinken During Senate Testimony – Blinken Lies and Says Americans Are Making This Up (VIDEO)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/cuts-off-presidents-microphone-senator-risch-grills-blinken-senate-testimony-blinken-lies-says-americans-making-video/
15 Billboards in PA.
Rand Paul got all this on the record. When thinking people address these governmental cretins, they just never “get” any of it. This entire atrocity had to be intentional.
Winken, Blinken and Nod looks like he hasn’t slept in weeks. Good!