so how did you feel about that afghanistan withdrawal? 13 marines died?
1 - there's no "debate" on the answer to my question. They were following "opsec" protocol.
2 - They've already started an action plan to ensure this doesn't happen again.
3 - Mike Waltz has never MET him. BUT, the person Mike Waltz added as a contact person DOES know the journalist. That contact person's wife works for a lawfirm who's security clearance have recently been revoked. That person also used to work for Victoria Nueland. (She's a real peach...). This being said, There's also talk that this was actually a set up to flush those particular people out. Time will tell.
They were using an app that was pre loaded on their phones by the cia. john ratcliff testified to that one.
"In February 2020, the Trump administration signed a deal with the Taliban that would ensure the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan and guarantee that “Afghan soil will not be used against the security of the United States and its allies”.
The agreement also led to the release of 5,000 Taliban detainees as part of a prisoner exchange with the US-backed Afghan government, which did not take part in the talks that led to the agreement.
Biden, who took office in January, later pushed the withdrawal deadline to the end of August.After the Taliban entered Kabul last month, US forces – still in control of the airport in the capital – commenced an evacuation operation to airlift American citizens, third-country nationals and Afghan allies out of the country.
The evacuations were marred by scenes of chaos and a suicide bombing that killed 175 people, including 13 US service members.
“When President Biden took office in January, he inherited an agreement that his predecessor had reached with the Taliban to remove all remaining US troops by May 1 of this year,” Blinken told the HFAC on Monday.
“As part of that agreement, the previous Administration pressed the Afghan government to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners – including some top war commanders. Meanwhile, it reduced our own force presence to 2,500 troops.”
Blinken added that Biden had no choice but to finalise the withdrawal or escalate the war and risk attacks against US forces."
Trump is the one who set that whole thing in motion. Negotiated with the Taliban without even including the Afghanistan government, then made them release 5,000 fighters and reduced our troop count to 2,500. Great negotiator.
Maybe I missed something about Mike Waltz not inviting him, but the chat log he released says that Mike Waltz invited him.
Yes, Signal was loaded onto their phones for them, but they set the messages to automatically delete after a week violating the Federal Records Act. That's not the default setting, I use Signal, you have to enable it.
