Senator Rand Paul

And so there is a real question, who gave the order and why would they give the order to kill someone who is out of combat?

Now, over the weekend, the Secretary of Defense was saying, well, I don't know anything about it.

I don't know anything about a second attack.

But today, when he was interviewed, he said, well, yes, I left the room for a while.

The second attack occurred, and I learned about it when he came back.

But what was he telling us this weekend?

He didn't know anything about a second attack, and he had never authorized it.

But now that it's come to light, he says, oh, I didn't do it.

Somebody else did it.

The admiral did it.

So they're all pinning blame on the military guy.

But I'm one who tends to give a lot of –

leeway to the military guy and not so much leeway to the person who gave him the orders.

These orders came from the Secretary of Defense, and ultimately he's gonna have to accept responsibility.

But to my mind, there's a question about whether or not killing people in the first place, who you have no proof that they're armed, you have presented no proof that they're carrying drugs, and that you simply kill them.

I think that's outrageous.

But now not only do we kill them,

Our government is following up by killing them when they're wounded and stranded and of no threat whatsoever, which is, according to our own laws, illegal.

I think it's, to me, amazing that anybody in the public accepts this.

The idea that we would make an accusation, we will simply accuse someone and then they are found guilty without any kind of process.