Will Hurd on Niger: I Disagree that Congress Should Be Part of the Operational Planning

‘If Congress thinks that we should be part of the operational planning, I disagree with that’

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HURD: "I didn’t know what happened beforehand, but I shouldn’t have. I’m not an operational or a tactical planner. And I think this focus, individual members of Congress shouldn’t know about individual, you know, activities. There’s probably thousands of individual movements that the military is involved in every single day. And if Congress thinks that we should be part of the operational planning, I disagree with that. Now, our role is in oversight function, is to make sure everybody had the right training, tools, that they getting the right intelligence before the activity. And I think General Dunford yesterday outlined a number of the questions that the military still has and is looking into this case. And I think this is a perfect example of how thousands of our citizens, our men and women, are putting themselves in harm’s way every single day to keep us safe. And the world is a dangerous place."

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