Details about an attack in Niger on Oct. 4 that claimed the lives of four U.S. soldiers will emerge after a Pentagon investigation, national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Thursday.
“The Defense Department will describe what the mission and the combat requirements were of that action and of the deaths of that soldier, and all of that will come out,” McMaster said at an event hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.
The administration has faced scrutiny over its handling of the attack in Niger, including why the body of one U.S. soldier was reportedly left on the battlefield for two days and why the president took nearly two weeks to address the attack directly.
“There is a full investigation and the investigation really has a couple of aims,” McMaster said. “One is to inform the American people, inform the Congress, inform across our government as to what really happened.”
“It was really not that long ago and this investigation is underway,” McMaster said. “I’m not the person to give you those answers.”
