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.
