It's unknown whether Texas Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is joining the list of legislators calling for an investigation into the Aug. 29 airstrike in Kabul that killed 10 innocent civilians, including seven children.
Calls to Cornyn's office were not returned.
Representatives from both political parties have called for an investigation into the events surrounding the strike.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) demanded on Twitter that there be consequences.
“There must be accountability," he wrote. "If there are no consequences for a strike this disastrous, it signals to the entire drone program chain of command that killing kids and civilians will be tolerated.”
Sen. Jim Inhofe said he will demand a full accounting of how the strike "went so horribly wrong."
“His (President Joe Biden's) precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan has left our military with an impossible mission of countering terrorists without any personnel or partners on the ground. The Aug. 29 strike shows how difficult and complex counterterrorism operations can be, and unfortunately, it highlights that an 'over-the-horizon' strategy will only increase the complexity and difficulty.”
The airstrike continues to be problematic for the Biden administration. Almost two and half weeks after Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, called the Aug. 29 drone attack, “a righteous strike” against an “imminent threat," Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III called it a mistake, adding, "We now know that there was no connection between Mr. Ahmadi and ISIS-Khorasan."
According to the Pentagon and several other reports, Ahmadi was an employee of an American-based aid organization Nutrition and Education International and posed no threat to U.S. forces.
The Sept. 17 statements contradicted statements issued on the day of the strike by the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) that said the U.S. executed a "self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike" against a vehicle in Kabul, which posed an imminent ISIS-K threat."
Three days later, Milley praised the airstrike saying at least one of the people killed was an ISIS facilitator and the action and "procedures were correctly followed."
Two days after the strike, Biden endorsed the airstrike, calling it an example of his "over-the-horizon" counter-terrorism strategy. He called the attack "retribution for the 13 servicemen and dozens of innocent Afghans" killed in an ISIS-K attack at the airport. The tragedy has counterterrorism experts questioning Biden's "over-the-horizon" strategy with one member calling it the "over-the-rainbow" strategy.