by Sundance
Team one (DoS/CIA) are really putting Team two (WH/DoD) on the defensive with this leak. [Pentagon video at bottom]
According to a Politico report using leaked classified intelligence from the U.S. intel community, the Pentagon knew well in advance that a suicide bomber was coming to the Abbey Gate long before the explosion. According to the leak the military knew where and when the attack was coming; and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned allies to avoid the area.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chief’s Chariman Mark Milley, and CentCom Commander General Kenneth McKenzie all knew in advance the Abbey Gate was going to be bombed on Thursday, yet they kept the gate open.(Politico) – Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty event,” according to classified detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO.
During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of “significant” intelligence indicating that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a “complex attack,” the notes quoted him as saying. Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was “highest risk,” and detailed their plans to protect the airport.
“I don’t believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,” Austin said, according to the classified notes.
On a separate call at 4 that afternoon, or 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Kabul, the commanders detailed a plan to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon Kabul time. But the Americans decided to keep the gate open longer than they wanted in order to allow their British allies, who had accelerated their withdrawal timeline, to continue evacuating their personnel, based at the nearby Baron Hotel.
American troops were still processing entrants to the airport at Abbey Gate at roughly 6 p.m. in Kabul on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest there, killing nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. service members. (read more)Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby was furious about the intelligence leak when questioned earlier today.
Good to see leaks working both ways. Instead of trying to undercut an administration working to protect and promote the nation and the people, FINALLY exposing the corruption and incompetence of the deep state.
What was it Schumer said about going against the Intel Community?
They issued public warnings for DAYS that classified info indicated a terrorist attack was highly likely at the airport, idiots.
Broad, non-specific warnings of SOMETHING that might happen. They had, apparently, SPECIFIC information about an attack at that gate, but they ignored it. Yet, to date, the only person held accountable for such incompetence on such a massive scale is one Lt. Col. demanding accountability for the incompetence. That, in and of itself, is incompetence.
biden is a traitor
Our enemies best ally and asset. Hey… ain’t that what they accused Trump of being for 4 years? Hmmmm….
Heartless and Emotionless US General Describes How US Military Left Hundreds of Americans Behind As US Forces Left Afghanistan
Pentagon Announces “War Is Over” in Afghanistan — Final Planes Have Left the Country – Hundreds if Not Thousands of Americans Left Stranded
It’s not over; it’ll simply be fought in numerous other theaters. Idiot Biden has brought the war on terror right to our homeland.
Well, they’ll make up. Who else is CNN going to support? It would be refreshing for them to say, “Boy, did we get THAT one wrong!” though.
“It Struck the Family as Scripted and Shallow” – Biden Meeting with Pregnant Widow of Dead Marine Doesn’t Go Well –
Did idiot Biden mention that shortly after his son’s death, his other son was banging his wife? Which is sadder?
Biden actually did what Trump didn’t really have the balls to do: He got us out of Afghanistan. THAT’s what’s driving you crazy.
It takes no spine or moral fiber at all to just CLAIM you’re going to do what’s difficult.
Says the Democrat that supports nothing but lying failures.
No American patriot has the “balls” to oversee an utter catastrophe like idiot Biden created. $85 billion in military equipment (more than the entire military budget of most nations) provided and 13 service men and women needlessly and avoidably killed all because of IDIOT BIDEN.
Trump’s withdrawal would have been organized and efficient. Idiot Biden’s withdrawal worked out more like Hunter’s withdrawal from that stripper; a disaster.
Biden actually got our troops out of Afghanistan and evacuated 120,000 people in the process. What Biden had to deal with to do that was the screwed-up situation Trump left behind on January 20th. Deal with it or not. That’s what happened.
What happened was an unmitigated catastrophe. It was a global display of incompetence and turned all our allies that were there against us. Other allies that thought they could depend upon the US for aid, support and protection are no doubt making other plans as well. That’s what a idiot BIDEN plan looks like.
Trump would have gotten them ALL out without any loss of life and left the Afghan government in control. Idiot Biden’s withdrawal is more like Hunter’s withdrawal from a stripper; results in life-changing disaster.
NOBODY
when you’ve lost msnbc
greggie, Trump didn’t leave anything behind except a good plan that would have avoided having to give the Taliban control of the airport. Biden created this dismal situation and failed to execute it. You and all of those who voted for Biden are also responsible for voting for an invalid who had several brain aneurisms in the past. There is no valid excuse for what our country has done in Afghanistan under this president.
Funny, Blinken just called idiot Biden a liar. Idiot Biden says they planned for every possible contingency. Blinken said no one imagined the ANA would collapse and Ghani would flee (I guess it’s a good thing he stole all that cash; otherwise, the Taliban would have it). So, I guess the OBVIOUS reaction of green troops to their air cover and US support suddenly yanked out from under them was the ONE contingency they didn’t consider.
Only the stupidest of the stupid believes and supports these lies and liars.
Better they have the military equipment.
Think of how they would have spent all of that money(sarc)
comrade greggy poo, you have shit for brains, completely illiterate, anti-American, anti-Sematic, communist loving dolt, who continues to ask mommy’s permission to play in this blog. your intel is from cnn and the the wipe house press sec, aka “idiot jen”. there is more Kool-Aid for you at home in the basement.
The sock puppets often get their cue cards mixed up.
Trump’s withdrawal never happened, after four long years of talking about it. It never would have. He would have “solved” the Afghanistan dilemma just like he “solved” the North Korean and Iranian nuclear problems. The man is a hurricane of hot air.
And Muslims hate dogs. They’ll simply beat them to death.
FINALLY. Finally you confess the truth. Trump’s withdrawal didn’t happen. Idiot Biden’s withdrawal did, following idiot Biden’s plan and it was idiot Biden’s disaster.
Good for you to finally see a fact. Next, maybe another fact. Then another. Then one day, you see how detrimental to the country Democrats are.
What I see is you fully approve of the traitors knowing in advance but allowing the blood sacrifice of our soldiers and stranding Americans.
Greg
Can ypu reqd? WE ARE STILL STRANDE THERE! AT LEAST 100 OF US; MAYIBE 500 OF US!
Dominion’s moron did not get us out!
When did Trump announce we were leaving by January 1st, and then by May 1st? Biden extended that second deadline by 4 ADDITIONAL months. Americans who wanted to leave Afghanistan had MONTHS to decide, and to do so. We were supposed to do Custer’s Last Stand at the Kabul airport until the last one to decide turned off the lights on the way out? We NEVER would have left.
Idiot Biden just says shit. Whatever sounds good. He has a long history of being protected by the media, so he doesn’t care if what he says is backed up by facts, is likely to come about or will lead to catastrophe.
greggie, you ignorance is only matched by this administration. You have no knowledge of Trump’s plans. You continue to maintain your TDS no matter the failure of Biden and his staff. You lack the capability to analyze any data and fact and arrive at a viable comment. You should admit yourself into the nearest institution before you hurt yourself any more.
Some of us still believe that as Americans, we don’t leave Americans behind. But you’re a Democrat (Communist, really) and have no loyalty to fellow Americans. Your loyalty is only to a political party.
May G-d have pity on your blackened soul, Comrade Greggie.
Trump’s plan was to leave before the fighting season started, but it was still contingent upon the Taliban living up to their agreements. So, Trump would not be withdrawing in the midst of Taliban control of Kabul and he would have still had Bagram. Idiot Biden gave little or no thought to any part of this operations, simply relying on blaming others for his failures. The idiot Biden disaster is inexcusable. He should be removed.
Biden’s plan was to leave by August 31st, and we did.
Without honor, Commie POS. Without honor.
But hey, you hate the U.S. so I’m sure that pleased you.
If 20 years and 2,372 military deaths aren’t enough to buy the “honor” you seek, you’ll just have to live with your shame. We did our part for two decades. Where was the honor of the Afghan army and the Afghan government? It’s THEIR country, you know.
What Trump agreed to: The Doha Agreement*
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-For-Bringing-Peace-to-Afghanistan-02.29.20.pdf
*Formally known as “TheAgreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban and the United States of America” (I’m guessing Donald had some input with the title.)
Interestingly, it was signed ONLY by a representative of the Trump administration and Abdul Ghani Baradar, leader of “the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan which is not recognized by the United States as a state and is known as the Taliban”.
So, the Trump administration cut a deal with the people we don’t recognize as having ANY authority, but NO representative of the official elected government of Afghanistan—the government that had authority over the Afghan army—was involved in the negotiations, or signed the document.
Not to worry, though, because there was a SECRET PLAN that supposedly would have sorted everything out in a happy fashion before May 1st. It was SO DAMN SECRET that not even the military knew the details.
BTW, it was Trump’s State Dept rep who talked Pakistan into releasing Abdul Ghani Baradar from prison in 2018.
By the way, when idiot Biden abandoned Bagram in the middle of the night, he left 7,000 ISIS prisoners behind. The Taliban released them. Now where are they? Maybe Mexico.
Unbelievable, the feckless tired old man hates children as well.
Brothers and sisters, we have a common enemy now. It is becoming more and more obvious there are those in government who do not share our views of the founding of this country and what it means to have the freedom we cherish.
The events of the last eight months are a warning that those freedoms are in a perilous state. Turning ones back on members of the military in harms way as well as intentionally leaving fellow Americans behind is a clear Indication of treason.
And, now we see the higher echelon of the military may in fact themselves be enemies of America and Americans. The fact that the only member of the military was relieved of command for doing his duty to speak up is a clear indication we as Americans can not trust the military at the highest levels.
Not speaking out against biden shows either cowardice or complicity.
biden does not possess the mental capabilities to process the complexities the office demands.
Who controls the levers of power and what does that portend for the American people?
I fear dark days are on the horizon and we here are in no different a condition that those who have been left behind…
I guess you forgot again. Idiot Biden, craving nothing but power, was in charge of this operation. It was his. In no form or fashion did he follow any of Trump’s plan. He went his own way, the way of cowardice, incompetence and dishonor. Had Trump been leading the way (no one was leading in idiot Biden’s debacle) it would have looked NOTHING like this. Idiot Biden has failed… again.
So, as gratitude, idiot Biden just shit on them all. Maybe to rebuild moral, he should go before them again and call them all stupid for not laughing and clapping for him.
Wow! Right on schedule! What a great accomplishments! I’m sure the 13 he killed are tickled. The Taliban have certainly been celebrating idiot Biden’s punctuality.
We’ve yet to find out how many are left to the hospitality of the Taliban. Might as well consider them dead now and be thankful for any that might manage to survive.
What a totally stupid detail to be proud of.
It’s not the leaving, it how we left. Biden had all the options and choices available. Are we safer now and in a better position with our NATO allies because of his choices? NO.
You are just an old blind fool. That Trump made me do it knee jerk you do is just nonsense. You are the running joke at this site.
On Jan. 20th Biden inherited what Trump had set up, with a withdrawal date only 101 days ahead. There was NO PLAN in the works for the removal of 122,000 people.
Wrong again greggie. Biden set the date by withdrawing the military and leaving our military equipment. That allowed the Taliban to capture most of the country uninhibited. Then the Taliban set the date for withdrawal. Your buddy Biden screwed this up quite well!
Biden EXTENDED Trump’s date by three months, which allowed 122,000 people to be evacuated. Trump’s Doha Agreement had set the original date.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-For-Bringing-Peace-to-Afghanistan-02.29.20.pdf
The Doha Agreement was between the Trump administration with the Taliban ONLY. The official Afghan government, which had authority over the Afghan army, had NO PART in the negotiation and NEVER signed the document. Yet Trump’s “plan” apparently assumed they would stay and resist the Taliban as we left.
THAT’S what Biden was left to deal with.
He could have extended it 6 months. He STILL f**ked it up. He has no idea what to do and apparently neither does his military leaders. Had Trump been on the job, there would have been no Taliban in Kabul when we withdrew, so there is no comparison between the two plans. Idiot Biden botched it when he allowed the “Tollybonn” to dictate to him what the conditions of withdrawal would be.
biden trashed the Trump plan. This was his plan.
Here’s your “Trump Plan”: https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Agreement-For-Bringing-Peace-to-Afghanistan-02.29.20.pdf
The problem, of course, is that someone has to be able to THINK to understand how absurd it was.
Well, that leaves you, idiot Biden, Austin, Milley, Blinken and Kamala out. None of you have the ability to think OR understand that when you are in charge, you make the calls. Then you take responsibility for those calls. NOTHING idiot Biden did followed Trump’s plan. Certainly not leaving hundreds, if not thousands, of Americans behind.
Idiot Biden relied too heavily on his usual capability to lie his way out of his f**k ups. Many are not letting him get away with it this time.
How many times do I have to remind you that idiot Biden, your deity, was running this? Not Trump, idiot Biden. Idiot Biden could have carried this out any way he chose. When the Taliban violated the agreement, he was in no way obligated to follow any plan, much less a date dictated by the Taliban. Idiot Biden made a conscious (as conscious as he can be) decision to screw this up as badly as he possibly could. Then that is exactly what he did.
Biden had to deal with what Trump left—an absurd agreement with somebody we didn’t even recognize, the Afghan government cut out of the negotiation, a May 1st deadline, all but 2500 troops ALREADY gone, and NO EVACUATION PLAN.
Biden did. He extended Trump’s deadline and got 122,000 people out of Afghanistan by the time he said he would.
Such an utterly stupid argument. Such an utterly pathetic and weak attempt to blame Trump for idiot Biden’s incompetence and failure. So, let’s begin dismantling this.
Idiot Biden didn’t follow Trump’s plan. If he had, either the Taliban would not have been in Kabul or there would have been no withdrawal. It’s that simple. For, the deal Trump made obligated the Taliban and Afghan government to negotiate shared power. When Trump was LEADER (the last one we’ve had), when the Taliban acted up, he SMASHED them. So, the ANA could hold their own against the Taliban and the Taliban behaved. Idiot Biden neither did any of that nor threatened any of that. So, he got rolled by the Taliban and idiot Biden negotiated with them from a position of extreme weakness. They had NO respect for idiot Biden.
Next: if idiot Biden had to follow Trump’s plan, why wasn’t he out in May? How did he get an extension to August 31st? THAT wasn’t Trump’s plan… doesn’t make sense. Kind of upends your weak-ass argument.
Next: Idiot Biden reversed everything Trump had done. He killed the Keystone pipeline. THAT was a deal already made. He stopped the wall. THAT was a deal already made (we actually pay billions NOT to build the wall now… brilliant). He threw open the border. THAT was a deal already made. He ended “Stay in Mexico” for “asylum” seekers. THAT was a deal already made. Idiot Biden didn’t have any reservations abrogating deals; what was so different about THIS deal, especially if it was so terribly bad?
Next: Under Trump’s plan, the 2,500 troops were completely sufficient to maintain security because they were doing it. But, if 2,500 were insufficient to evacuate US citizens, personnel and allies WITHOUT the Taliban in Kabul looking over their shoulder, how was ZERO troops going to do the job WITH the Taliban occupying Kabul? Without the military there, what was idiot Biden’s “evacuation plan”? Hmmm? Answer that, GENIUS! Since he had to immediately put back 6,000 troops, it doesn’t appear he had one, does it?
You are going to have to face the facts. Report it back to your handlers. It is IMPOSSIBLE to transfer idiot Biden’s blame for the absolute disaster he created to anyone else. It was his deal all the way. Period. End of debate, settled science.
TRUMP HAD NO DAMN PLAN. Even TRUMP can’t explain what he would have done differently.
He was asked about that several times on FOX Business with Stuart Varney this morning. He quickly tapped danced away from the question and attacked Biden again. HE HAD NOTHING. Even in retrospect, HE CAN COME UP WITH NOTHING.
2500 troops weren’t “maintaining security”. The Taliban had simply moved from active aggression to watching and waiting, because WE WERE ALREADY LEAVING. They were already repositioning their forces and cutting their deals with local tribal leaders and the military.
Yet you keep saying idiot Biden was beholden to Trump’s plan, which was why it turned out so abysmally badly. Which is it? No plan or bad plan idiot Biden blindly, after reversing EVERY OTHER TRUMP PLAN, followed?
Yeah, the Taliban were watching and waiting… for a complete idiot like Biden to come to power. Watching and waiting for a weak moron that can be easily manipulated and cowed. Watching and waiting until the strong leader, TRUMP, who would smack them down if they got unruly, was gone.
And it paid off for them for idiot Biden performed exactly as everyone that has watched him over the years expected; he F**KED IT TOTALLY UP.
You can bitch and moan about Trump’s plan and waaa, waaa, waaa, poor idiot Biden didn’t know what to do but follow Trump’s bad, horrible plan, waa, waa, waaa, but the fact is this: idiot Biden was in charge, idiot Biden dictated HIS plan, idiot Biden had his lackeys carry out HIS plan and the result was absolute disaster.
Trump would have succeeded.
THERE WAS NO TRUMP PLAN.
Your ignorance continues to be apparent greggie. If there was no plan, then how can anyone blame Trump? Biden determined Biden pulling the military our in the dark of night tripped the Taliban take over.
Because the incompetent s.o.b. pulled out troops and agreed to a full withdrawal date WITHOUT ONE.
Trump didn’t even have a plan for the evacuation of non-military personnel by May 1st. How STUPID was THAT?
Ummm, May 1st. Remind me again when Joe (#talibiden) Biden took office. Remind me again of the policy of providing the incoming president a national/foreign security briefing. Remind me again how, by inauguration day, the incoming president has his staff pretty much picked and is already making plans for both national and foreign.
But no one needs to remind me what a pig you are. I already know.
And now, it seems that Reuter’s has let the cat out of the bag.
Maybe you should talk to somebody about those memory problems.
(1) biden surrendered Bagram AF base in the dark of night giving the base to the taliban with no fight
(2) biden evacuated military personnel in advance of assisting American citizens and SIV’s
(3) biden gifted the taliban with 85 billion dollars of fully functioning military equipment
President Trump did nothing of the above nor would he had the election not been stolen…
NATIONAL SECURITY, UNITED STATES OF COMMON SENSE
Time To Think The Unthinkable
by Charles “Sam” Faddis August 30, 2021
“Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
U.S. CODE
https://andmagazine.com/talk/2021/08/30/time-to-think-the-unthinkable/
Seek psychiatric counseling.
Well greggie, they commented on that yesterday. Maybe you need to commit yourself! There are plenty of institutions that cure TDS!
Go Fuchs yourself. You support and voted for biden. You and the rest of the supporters and voters have blood on your hands.
How does it feel to be complicit in war crimes?
Remember this?
Revealed: Biden Turned Down Taliban Offer to Allow US to Control Kabul and the Airport
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone.”
This was the statement General Dwight David Eisenhower prepared in the event the D-Day landings had failed. The Allies were facing a very capable and prepared enemy and success was in no way assured. Gen. Eisenhower made the decision to go and accepted full responsibility in the event of failure.
I guess the military leaders don’t study D-Day anymore. Idiot Biden probably doesn’t even know what it was. There are no honorably responsible people in this regime. All they and their loyal followers can do is point fingers.
Biden waived congressional mandate for report on risks of U.S. troop withdrawal in Afghanistan
Idiot Biden speaking, blaming everyone else, as usual. Though he’s been in charge for 8 months, it’s all Trump’s fault. Those Americans that didn’t get out… it’s THEIR fault. He trusts the “Tollybonn”.
National idiot, national liar, national embarrassment.
The only success of the biden plan was the importation of more than 100k Afghan taliban terrorists.
They never should have been brought here. The ones who deserved to be evacuated should have been kept in the region.
I was wondering when the shift from “Those poor people Biden abandoned” to “He’s importing terrorists” would come.
They’ve been coming in since January 20th when idiot Biden opened up the border (blamed the crushing flood of illegal immigrants on Trump, of course).
They do not deserve to be here. They are not SIV’s or Afghan friendlys
CONVICTED RAPIST Reached The U.S. On Afghan Evacuation Flight With Potential Terrorists
So said your cult leader this morning, on the phone with with Stuart Varney of FOX Business:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reveals-his-master-plan-for-afghanistan?ref=scroll
“It’s something that’s rather incredible,” he said. “They [the people supposedly controlling Biden] do horrible things, vicious things. They cheat, steal, lie. But they can’t do a simple withdrawal from a country that we should never have gone into in the first place… We should have hit that country years ago, hit it them really hard, and then let it rot.”
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“He [Biden] handed them a country on a silver platter,” said Trump. “He ought to apologize and stop trying to, excuse the language, bullshit everybody into thinking that what he did was good. We should have withdrawn but we should have withdrawn in a totally different way, with great dignity. It would have been a tremendous win for us.”
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Of course, he didn’t say a damn thing about the details of his “totally different way”, which anyone with a brain realizes never actually existed.
You have blood on your hands because you support and voted for biden
Three-Year-Old California Boy Is Stranded in Afghanistan, Could Not Get Out – Joe Biden Calls This an “Extraordinary Success”
Well, as idiot Biden himself just said, the kid was warned. It’s his own fault. Nothing is idiot Biden’s fault; always someone else’s.
Well, you know how idiot Biden feels about rapists, being one himself and all.
EXCLUSIVE: Obama/Biden Reinstituting Program of Bringing Non-Vetted Illegals Into the US and Using ‘Non-Profits’ to Move Them Around the US
biden killed the 13 marines.
Why has biden not fired Austin, milley or blinken?
Because then they’d turn on him and expose all his ignorance and corruption.
Heres a funny for my frens