(THE HILL) -- Congress has launched an investigation of the helicopter crash that killed 30 Americans in Afghanistan, including members of the Navy’s elite SEAL Team 6 unit, The Hill has learned.
The victims’ families say the Pentagon hasn’t provided answers to their many questions about the deadly attack, which took place on Aug. 6, 2011, three months after Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by Team 6 forces.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on National Security, told The Hill, “We’re going to dive into this.”
Chaffetz said he met with the victims’ families about a month ago in what he described as an “emotional” gathering. He is poised to send questions to the Pentagon and may hold hearings on the matter.
Charlie Strange, whose son Michael was among those killed, said he asked President Obama two years ago at Dover Air Force Base to fully investigate. The death toll in the crash was the largest of any single incident for the U.S. military during the Afghanistan war.
Obama praised Michael’s service to Strange, who responded, “I don’t need to know about my son. I need to know what happened to my son.”
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3 comments:
Not trying to rate any of these scandals...but the media says that all the recent ones are greater than Benghazi. That makes me think that Benghazi is the one they are most scared of.
they want to hold Hillary and the liberal elite responsible ... HA! only Republicans do those kind of things...oh wait they sponsored the patriot act..wake up shepple these criminals have sold this country out since wilson..payoffs coming for em and we better be prepared or we'll get the short end of the stick
I don't understand how all of those special forces ended up in one helicopter. Let me think...you give me Binladen, and I'll give you seal team 6.
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