In latest report, Afghan watchdog says Biden agencies 'refused to cooperate' with disclosure rules | Just The News

"for the first time in its history it was "unable this quarter to provide Congress and the American people with a full accounting of this U.S. government spending [in Afghanistan] due to the noncooperation of several U.S. government agencies."

Wonder why the Dumpster Fire is refusing to cooperate.  Wonder what they are hiding.  Giving aid to the enemy maybe?

The corruption of the Biden regime continues to spread and grow.

Well, he only promised to aim for the highest standards of transparency.  Aim high and blame the prior guy when you fail to meet your promises.  It's the ol' Washington two-step.

And not a peep from the "democracy dies in the darkness" crowd. 

Afghan Watchdog?  Really?  How about these 'watchdog traitors' doing a study focusing on the Afghan withdrawal under the agreements of The Trump Administration to have all US forces removed from Afghanistan by May 1st, 2021?  I wonder how that would have looked like?  All Biden did was extend it by 90 days.

I think that Trump’s negotiation with the Taliban without the Afghan government was wrong and I think that he gave too many concessions.  However, after Trump, the Taliban violated the agreement and Biden didn’t have to then abide by it.

Afghan Watchdog?  Really?  How about these 'watchdog traitors' doing a study focusing on the Afghan withdrawal under the agreements of The Trump Administration to have all US forces removed from Afghanistan by May 1st, 2021?  I wonder how that would have looked like?  All Biden did was extend it by 90 days.

So anyone that doesn't agree with Brandon the human fuck up machine is now a traitor?

How about these 'watchdog traitors' doing a study focusing on the Afghan withdrawal under the agreements of The Trump Administration to have all US forces removed from Afghanistan by May 1st, 2021? 

How about you learn some facts. Like why Brandon unilaterally extended the withdrawal deadline to Sept 11th?

pbs

President Joe Biden will withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country, several U.S. officials said Tuesday. The decision defies a May 1 deadline for full withdrawal under a peace agreement the Trump administration reached with the Taliban last year, but leaves no room for additional extensions. A senior administration official called the September date an absolute deadline that won’t be affected by security conditions in the country.

Read it and weep. The human fuck up machine unilaterally extended the troop withdrawal date to 9/11. Trump had it set for May 1st for a reason. Afghan winter ends May 1st. Guess what the Taliban and Al Qaeda were waiting for? 

Brandon also pressured the president of Afghanistan not to sound the alarm about the imminent Taliban surge and threat of a full collapse of the Afghan military and government. 

reuters

In the call, Biden offered aid if Ghani could publicly project he had a plan to control the spiraling situation in Afghanistan. “We will continue to provide close air support, if we know what the plan is,” Biden said. Days before the call, the U.S. carried out air strikes to support Afghan security forces, a move the Taliban said was in violation of the Doha peace agreement.

The U.S. president also advised Ghani to get buy-in from powerful Afghans for a military strategy going forward, and then to put a “warrior” in charge of the effort, a reference to Defense Minister General Bismillah Khan Mohammadi.

Biden lauded the Afghan armed forces, which were trained and funded by the U.S. government. “You clearly have the best military,” he told Ghani. “You have 300,000 well-armed forces versus 70-80,000 and they’re clearly capable of fighting well.” Days later, the Afghan military started folding across provincial capitals in the country with little fight against the Taliban.

In much of the call, Biden focused on what he called the Afghan government’s “perception” problem. “I need not tell you the perception around the world and in parts of Afghanistan, I believe, is that things are not going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban,” Biden said. “And there is a need, whether it is true or not, there is a need to project a different picture.”

Biden told Ghani that if Afghanistan’s prominent political figures were to give a press conference together, backing a new military strategy, “that will change perception, and that will change an awful lot I think.”

Know what else the human fuck up machine failed to do? He failed to warn US citizens, green card holders, and special VISA holders to get out. He was more concerned about image in Afghanistan than saving US lives. You don't withdraw troops before all civilians are out. Seems that Brandon failed basic tactics; along with with lying about what his military advisors told him to do.

foreign.senate

The Biden Administration ignored numerous intelligence reports about the potential for a speedy
Taliban takeover of Kabul, decided to abandon Bagram Air Base, disregarded dissent cables from the
State Department (State), failed to plan an evacuation until it was too late, and in the process,
abandoned tens of thousands of Afghan partners. The administration did not make a decision on
evacuations from Afghanistan until a National Security Council Deputies Committee meeting on
August 14, mere hours before the fall of Kabul.
One of the most important roles of the U.S. government is for the protection of American
citizens overseas. The Biden Administration failed to properly plan for an evacuation despite countless
warning signs that a Taliban takeover was imminent. The U.S. government failed to even account for
the number of people who would need to be evacuated, let alone for how this evacuation would occur.
When the decision to evacuate was belatedly made, the evacuation effort was severely hampered
by the earlier decision to close Bagram Air Base. This air base would have improved the ability for
evacuations to take place and its abandonment allowed for the release of thousands of extremists,
including one who participated in the terrorist attack which killed 13 U.S. service members.
From August 15 to August 31, the United States completed its largest air evacuation. However,
this evacuation was marred by a lack of planning, coordination, and communication. The United
States failed to establish a clear system of how to contact evacuees and processes to allow them into
the airport. The result left American citizens, U.S. legal permanent residents, and Afghan allies
abandoned to the fate of the Taliban regime

Of course his generals then threw Brandon under the bus in the Congressional investigations. Saying they urged him not to withdraw from Afghanistan.

politico

Top generals told lawmakers under oath on Tuesday that they advised President Joe Biden early this year to keep several thousand troops in Afghanistan — directly contradicting the president’s comments in August that no one warned him not to withdraw troops from the country.

The remarkable testimony pits top military brass against the commander-in-chief as the Biden administration continues to face tough questions about what critics are calling a botched withdrawal that directly led to the deaths of 13 American service members, scenes of chaos at the Kabul airport, and the abandonment of American citizens and at-risk Afghans in the war-torn country.

Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services in a hearing Tuesday that he recommended maintaining a small force of 2,500 troops in Afghanistan earlier this year.

He also noted that in the fall of 2020, during the Trump administration, he advised that the U.S. maintain a force almost double the size, of 4,500 troops, in Afghanistan.

In answering questions from Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) about his advice, McKenzie said he would not share his “personal recommendation” to the president.

But he went on to say that his “personal view,” which he said shaped his recommendations, was that withdrawing those forces “would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces and, eventually, the Afghan government.”

McKenzie also acknowledged that he talked to Biden directly about the recommendation by Gen. Scott Miller, the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan until July, that the military leave a few thousand troops on the ground, which Miller detailed in closed testimony last week.

“I was present when that discussion occurred and I am confident that the president heard all the recommendations and listened to them very thoughtfully,” McKenzie said.

"But Trruuummmmppppp!!!!!!" The excuse is getting more pathetic each and every time Democrats and leftists use it.

Accept the facts. If Trump had botched the Afghanistan withdrawal the Democrats would have impeached him instantly over it. Why should Brandon be held to anything less?

Before you demand someone accept facts perhaps you should know the facts yourself.

I ask again:  How would the Afghan withdrawal played out had the Trump Administration's original agreement with the Taliban of May 1st, 2021 occurred?  Do you know?

Biden extended it 90 days.  

That's unknowable. Trump administration agreed to withdraw from the country by May 1, 2021, if the Taliban negotiated a peace agreement with the Afghan government and promised to prevent terrorist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State from gaining a foothold.  The Taliban violated that agreement.

He failed to warn US citizens, green card holders, and special VISA holders to get out. He was more concerned about image in Afghanistan than saving US lives. You don't withdraw troops before all civilians are out. Seems that Brandon failed basic tactics;

Every time you repeat this nonsense it only harms your credibility. The State Department

started warning State Department Employees, American passport holders, green card

holders, contractors and their families in April 

giving all Americans and their dependents  at least 4 months to get out before the

Afghan government's collapse in August. 

No one foresaw the total collapse and capitulation to the Taliban,

at least not the people who started complaining on September 1st.

Accept the facts. If Trump had botched the Afghanistan withdrawal the Democrats would have impeached him instantly over it. Why should Brandon be held to anything less?

The fact is that Biden is being held to the same standard that Gerry Ford

was when we left Vietnam and left behind everything except our people and Navy.

Vietnam promptly used our Army and Air Force equipment to invade Cambodia.

Did you want to impeach Gerry Ford?

We cut and ran from Beirut Lebanon with the bodies of  220 Marines, 18 USN Corpsmen

and 3 US Army soldiers, did you want to impeach President Reagan?

The fact is that Biden is being held to the same standard that Gerry Ford was when we left Vietnam and left behind everything except our people and Navy.

Most US Forces withdrew a year before Ford became president.

We cut and ran from Beirut Lebanon with the bodies of  220 Marines, 18 USN Corpsmen

Were you advocating that we stay longer?

It is not unknowable.  

The Taliban never had any intention of abiding by any agreements they made and Biden and his minions were naive enough to believe that they would. Many innocent people paid the price for that.

Except, it was Trump and his minions who negotiated the US's Afghanistan exit agreement with the damn Taliban...

Every time you repeat this nonsense it only harms your credibility. The State Department

started warning State Department Employees, American passport holders, green card

holders, contractors and their families in April 

giving all Americans and their dependents  at least 4 months to get out before the

Afghan government's collapse in August. 

No one foresaw the total collapse and capitulation to the Taliban,

at least not the people who started complaining on September 1st.

Prove it! I provided a link that says they did not. If the state department was issuing warnings for everyone to get out of Afghanistan the US media would have picked it up. Should be easy to find media announcements warning people. 

I did find one article from NPR that Brandon downsized the Embassy in Kabul in April. Guess everyone should have taken that as the get the fuck out warning- though it doesn't state any was given.

npr

The State Department is downsizing the U.S. embassy in Kabul, ordering some nonessential personnel to leave amid concerns about heightened violence as U.S. and NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan.

The department "ordered the departure from U.S. Embassy Kabul of U.S. government employees whose functions can be performed elsewhere," it noted in a travel advisory issued Tuesday.

U.S. officials would not confirm the number of embassy personnel departing, but insisted it would be small and that all offices and services will remain open at the embassy.

"This does not reflect the diminution of our diplomatic engagement in Afghanistan," a State Department official tells NPR. He did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak on the record about the embassy departures. "I would call it a reposturing so that we can prepare for the departure of troops in a prudent manner while continuing our diplomatic priorities in country."

Of course it doesn't help when Brandon is twisting the arm of the Afghani president to lie about the situation there.

The fact is that Biden is being held to the same standard that Gerry Ford was when we left Vietnam

He is?  No, I think Biden has an army of people ready & willing to cover for him in all the coming investigations.

What planning was that. It looked more like a knee jerk reaction cluster f#*k on Biden's part!

Ross: We put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans going back to, I think, March or April. Each one in stronger terms to leave now, leave immediately. Never in my 40 years in my working at the State Department have I seen such strong language used. People chose not to leave. That’s their business. That’s their right. We regret now that many may find themselves in a position they’d rather not be in. We are determined to try to help them.

CBS Evening News @CBSEveningNews

Official

Top U.S. diplomat says the State Department put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans in Afghanistan telling them to leave since April: “People chose not to leave. That's their business," Ross Wilson said.

(12) CBS Evening News on Twitter: "Top U.S. diplomat says the State Department put out repeated warnings every three weeks to Americans in Afghanistan telling them to leave since April: “People chose not to leave. That's their business," Ross Wilson said. https://t.co/hr5HlLxA0F" / Twitter

April 27,2021

State Department Orders Departure Of Nonessential Personnel From Kabul Embassy : NPR

Wilson answered, “We put out repeated warnings, every three weeks, to Americans, going back to, I think, March or April, each one in stronger terms, leave now, leave immediately. Never in my 40 years of working — since I began working at the State Department have I seen such strong language used. People chose not to leave. That’s their business. That’s their right. We regret now that many may find themselves in a position that they would rather not be in. And we are determined to try to help them.” U.S. Amb. to Afghanistan: We Warned Americans to Leave Afghanistan and 'People Chose Not to Leave' (breitbart.com)

Every time you repeat this nonsense it only harms your credibility. The State Department

started warning State Department Employees, American passport holders, green card

holders, contractors and their families in April 

giving all Americans and their dependents  at least 4 months to get out before the

Afghan government's collapse in August.

So lets see the link to that "warning".  

No one foresaw the total collapse and capitulation to the Taliban, at least not the people who started complaining on September 1st.

Please.  For those of us that were in country in 2012 saw it coming.  It was no secret and only took a cursory glance to see what was going on.