by Jennifer Oliver O’Connell
The Biden State Department is determined to control the narrative of those Americans they left behind and who are being held hostage in Afghanistan. What they fail to realize is that the narrative got away from them weeks ago. Yet, they continually gaslight, obstruct, and obfuscate. While the hostage situation was unfolding at Mazar-i-Sharif airport on Sunday, Biden’s Chief of Staff Ron Klain went on CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash to deceive not only about the number of Americans and allies left behind, but that they were actually doing work to rescue them.
“We’re gonna find ways to get them—the ones that want to leave—out of Afghanistan,” Klain told Bash.
The ones that want to leave… these cretins are still trying to paint the picture that our citizens have a choice in this matter. While the Biden State Department may not be actively blocking the exit doors, they are holding on to the legs of people trying to run for the doors. Even when private organizations attempt an extract, it still requires the ability to safely land in another allied airport, with everyone having proper visas and paperwork in place. This is where the State Department is essentially gumming up the works by either changing or withholding paperwork at the last possible moment, or refusing to authorize the plane’s landing at a Department of Defense approved airport.
My colleague Nick Arama reported yesterday that the State Department’s latest attempt was to take credit for a rescue of which they had little part.
Fox News had more to say on this:The organizer of a private mission to rescue an American mom, Mariam, and her three children from Afghanistan says the U.S. State Department is now trying to insert itself into the story of her evacuation, despite playing little to no role for much of the rescue effort.
Senior State Department officials on Monday announced that the “U.S. has facilitated the safe departure of four US citizens by overland route from Afghanistan. Embassy staff was present upon their arrival.”
But those actually involved in the dangerous rescue operation say the State Department deserves little to no credit for Mariam’s escape from Afghanistan.Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) tweeted out the success of their rescue:
After 2 weeks & multiple life threatening attempts, I am overjoyed to share that 4 U.S. citizens from #TX13 were part of the first successful ground evacuation since the U.S. left Kabul. Thank you to Cory Mills & the other patriots on his team for saving these BRAVE Americans! pic.twitter.com/1Tv9KRUgcE
— Ronny Jackson (@RepRonnyJackson) September 6, 2021
Cory Mills and a private team of military veterans, drawing on funding by private donors including the Sentinel Foundation, led the effort to rescue Mariam and her three children from Afghanistan, where they had been left behind by the Biden administration, multiple sources with knowledge of Mariam’s evacuation confirmed to Fox News.
Mills and his team worked for weeks to get Mariam’s family out of Afghanistan after Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson alerted him to the family’s plight.But the good stenographers at CNN wrote an article that credited the State Department with the rescue of this family. Rep. Jackson was understandably livid:
This article makes me want to PUKE! The State Dept didn’t do a damn thing for these people for 12 days except almost get them killed repeatedly. I know, because my office and the team on the ground led by Cory Mills & @RepMullin facilitated their escape every step of the way. https://t.co/0X5eRVu14I
— Ronny Jackson (@RepRonnyJackson) September 6, 2021
As Arama further reported, the State Department did have a role… sort of:The State Department’s ultimate role? They helped get them tourist visas after they had already gotten out across the border into another country. Big help. Both Rep. Markwayne Mullin and Rep. Ronny Jackson said the State Department’s claims were false, Mullin calling it a “flat out lie.”
Arama also reported on the six planes full of Americans being forcefully held by the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif airport. In another article, I alluded to Rep. Mike McCaul’s (R-TX) interview on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, calling the situation what it is: a hostage takeover.
.@RepMcCaul tells Chris Wallace there are Americans being held hostage by the Taliban on six planes in Afghanistan right now pic.twitter.com/lgEY6SOPFn
— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) September 5, 2021
State Dept accused of blocking evacuation flights from Afghanistan | https://t.co/BG3VDX4I8r
— Jennifer OO (@joliveroconnell) September 7, 2021
Despite other outlets corroborating Rep. McCaul’s claims, the State Department continued to use doublespeak to neither confirm or deny that any situation of this nature is occurring.
The idiot Biden regime doesn’t seem to be able to see the writing on the wall. Like the Obama regime, they are relying on the media supporting them when they proclaim failure is resounding success. For the first time in either regime, the media doesn’t seem to be cooperating (though they haven’t reported AT ALL on idiot Biden’s quid pro quo with Ghani to try and get him to support idiot Biden’s lies) and keep up with that nasty reporting of (some of) the facts on the ground.
All idiot Biden cares about, just like that pile of garbage Obama, is crowing about getting out and ending a war. The United States being totally embarrassed and castrated on the world stage, the hundreds, probably thousands, of US citizens and relied upon allies totally abandoned and stranded, the 13 soldiers needlessly and avoidably killed and the wounded doesn’t matter at all. Idiot Biden is relying on the media to “laptop” all those pesky, minute details. Time for ice cream!
The Taliban will eventually, sooner rather than later, wise up to what is going on and, if just to embarrass the idiot Biden and the United States further, will cut the spigot off.