Eight Republican senators are seeking answers from the Biden administration about the trove of biometric data that was reportedly captured by the Taliban when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.
A letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin—which Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) posted on her site on May 4—comes about four months after the Department of Defense (DOD) missed a deadline to produce a report on the estimated $85 billion in U.S. weaponry left in Afghanistan—including abandoned or destroyed biometric equipment or tools.
Blackburn and her colleagues are asking Blinken and Austin about reports from the nonprofit group Human Rights Watch, which has alleged that the Taliban is using U.S. biometric tools and data to hunt down its enemies.
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