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Aid worker was mistakenly killed. defense department officials hailing the defensive strike as a precision operation against incoming suicide bombers on the penultimate day of the u.s.-led evacuation at kabul's international airport. subsequent reporting suggests the bombing was the case of mistaken identity that left ten civilians dead, many of them children. just the latest example say critics of the slipshod exit from the war-torn country. a debacle that left behind an unknown number of americans and their afghan cooperators. >> you evacuated 6,040 americans and only a couple hundred remain...

Untold number of americans and their afghan cooperators feared >> you evacuated 6,040 americans. only a couple hundred remain, your own department told this committee in july, there were 10,015,000 americans in afghanistan. there is a huge difference between 6,015,000. what happened to these other americans? >> unable to explain the drone strike and unable to explain the numerical discrepancies and a number of americans left in afghanistan, as you can well imagine, senate republicans lunged at blinken. >> not only did you fail to evacuate americans and green card holders who were there, but yo...

Afghanistan. there is a huge difference between 6,015,000. what happened to these other americans. the situation with the special immigrant visa is even more disturbing. not counting the sivs that arrived before kabul's fall, you evacuated 705 of roughly 20,000 principle siv applicants. what happened to these people? this committee reached out to the department in april, may and june to help expedite siv processing. we asked that additional -- what additional authorities or resources you needed for months we received contradictory responses or no response at all. i'll take a minute to defend t...