By Ray King

As the national news media was reporting that a number of American service personnel were killed in a terroristic attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan Thursday, Fourth District Congressman Bruce Westerman told Deltaplex News that he had attended a confidential briefing with other members of Congress earlier this week about the situation in that country.

According to ABC News, an American has not been killed in Afghanistan since February 2020.

Westerman described the briefing as bi-partisan, attended by the Secretaries of Defense, State and Homeland Security, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of National Intelligence. He said one purpose of the meeting was to try and get President Joe Biden to extend the Aug. 31 deadline for getting Americans and others out of the country.

The Congressman also said there will be a lot of follow-ups and a lot of questions that will need to be answered, and was asked if the President’s actions were “an impeachable offense?”