Biden admin. should have informed Congress earlier about Syria attack: Pentagon chief
“All on the same day: we got hit, we planned and executed our response, and we notified Congress,” NSC Spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said in a statement.
Joseph Haboush, Al Arabiya English
Published: 28 March ,2023: 06:58 PM GST
Updated: 28 March ,2023: 07:52 PM GST
A senior US cabinet official admitted Tuesday that the Biden administration should have notified lawmakers earlier than it did about a deadly drone attack on American forces in Syria last week.
“We should have notified you earlier,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
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Austin vowed to “improve our performance” after Republican lawmakers grilled him over an almost 13-hour delay between the time of the attack and when US lawmakers were notified.
A series of tit-for-tat exchanges occurred between Iran-backed militias and US forces last Thursday following the initial drone strike, which killed an American contractor and wounded six other Americans.
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