Even as U.S. intelligence estimates warned of a pending collapse after Biden’s hasty and reckless Afghan withdrawal, an urgent July State Department memo shows that administration officials were cautioned about the Taliban’s lightning advance. This shows that President Biden was either lying in his public statements about being surprised by the Taliban’s victory, as I have written, and CNN agreed, or he is too out of touch to know the difference.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported that due to the dire situation on the ground, 23 American staffers of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul signed the CONFIDENTIAL July 13 cable, and urgently rushed to deliver it to Team Biden in Washington, DC, via a special ‘dissent’ channel.
WSJ notes that the “dissent channel is a formal mechanism of the State Department that allows foreign service officers to raise concerns about current policy. It was established during the Vietnam War as a result of concerns that contrary views were being ignored.”
The urgent cable was reportedly sent to Biden’s Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Director of Policy Planning Salman Ahmed. Blinken reportedly received the cable and reviewed it shortly after receipt.
The WSJ notes that:
The existence of the confidential State Department cable adds to an expanding debate involving the White House, Pentagon and intelligence services over what U.S. officials understood about assessments of Afghanistan’s stability.
U.S. military and intelligence officials, struggling with the fallout from the rapid collapse of Afghanistan’s government and armed forces, have sparred over U.S. intelligence assessments regarding the country’s stability.President Biden in July had said that a collapse of the government and a Taliban takeover were “highly unlikely,” pointing to the large numbers of Afghan National Security Force members, their U.S. training and modern equipment, including an air force.
On Wednesday, in an interview with ABC News, Mr. Biden said that “the idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens.”
The Biden deception, or cluelessness, about the rapid Taliban advance being unexpected extends to his Defense Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the JCS at the Pentagon, has said that rapid collapse of the U.S.-supported Afghan government and army was never anticipated.
“There was nothing that I or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days,” Milley stated on Wednesday.
Joe Biden needs to stop sniffing ( Obama wife )BIG Mikes’s hair and wake up
Retard joe would surrender to the taliban. He’s a loony chicken shit
Which Joe are you talking about?
The one with ear lobes or the one wit no ear lobes – we are being played
Golly, gee, just what did these Pentagon officials and our top military leaders think would happen? That the Taliban would calmly sit back and sip tea while the US pulled out? Like any conquering force, they took advantage of the huge opening Biden* gave them and picked up the ball and ran with it, leaving the USA with egg on their face. This is what happens when you put pseudo-intellectuals in charge of anything. They are so sure their right about everything, but they end up failing at everything
“This shows that President Biden was either lying in his public statements about being surprised by the Taliban’s victory, as I have written, and CNN agreed, or he is too out of touch to know the difference.”
Either way he is unfit to be President and should resign immediately or be removed under the 25th Amendment.
If you’re going to call him President Biden put the word fake before president
Pretender Biden will work or PINO (president in name only)
Considering that Biden like his master Obama is also entirely incapable of telling the truth….why do you ask if he is lying?
YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF DICTATOR bid ens MOUTH, NOR CAN YOU BELIEVE ps aki , ACTUALLY YOU CAN NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING FROM ANYONE IN DICTATOR bid ens REGIME!!! HE HAS TO GO BYE, BYE!!!
Xidum is working for the CCP not America. Bought and paid for.
TRUE
You actually have dumb ass demoshits saying what a great job Biden and Harris are doing…They are doubling down on his IGNORANCE….SCUMBAG DEMOSHITS
They are Mentally Ill. And it’s Terminal.
This is the SECOND time Biden (CATHOLIC traitor) has abandoned a nation!
The first nation he abandoned was the USA! Biden (CATHOLIC traitor ) deserted the USA on his first day of ‘reign’ to the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS from the south! Now we have over a million ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC INVADERS scattered around the USA in less than six months after his ‘reign’.
The only difference between Muslim and CATHOLIC is the continent they destroy. They destroy their own nation, then move to the next. They bring all the failure, ignorance, poverty, crime, corruption, and demand that their ‘culture’ be honored.
Now he abandoned Afghanistan and so the same story continues!
Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and the USA will look the same as everything south of the USA. Ignorant, poverty ridden, no infrastructure, crime ridden, corrupt to the core is what CATHOLIC traitors bring to the USA.
The PUTZ in Chief is incompetent, but is supported by the greedy old fossil crazy Nancy Pelosisaures and crying Chucky Schumer!
Didn’t Nancy go extinct 30 million years ago?
Fossils can rise again, given enough silicone, botox and formaldehyde, But hold your nose! Resurrected from Lenin’s Mausoleum…
This is the The Biden deception on America and on Americans in Afghanistan
It is why 3 of the five Eyes Intel consortium no longer trust the US and already had stopped trusting Canada.
The “Eyes” communication lines to the Joint Chiefs have apparently gone dark. Even now the extractions operations is completely salvageable with a rapid response deployment
But Biden wants the Taliban to be left alone an to be more armed than most NATO member nations, and clearly Biden wants American deaths on the ground.
So when did Biden join Obama and also became a Closet Jihadist supporting Muslim…nothing else makes sense
Every failure is a success
Why is no onw reporting on the rules of engagement – seems Biden has tied the hands of our troops.
I never thought I would see the President of the United States of America taking orders from a Terrorist Organization especially after him giving those Terrorists Control of a Country we have
tried to liberate for 20 years (The terrorists moved in and took over in less than a week without firing a shot) This gives this Terrorist Group the ability to launch their terror tactics all over the World! Thanks to Joe Biden, the “Foreign Affairs Expert”
BEYOND my Comprehension. ALL of it.
Why am I seeing these side notes about “Polls rating Biden”, when We the People all know he is
not a “Real President and should never have been railroaded into the position by the Corrupt Democrats
we need to treat these people for what they are a big THREAT to the United States of America eliminate all of them
& Taliban kills 18 servicemen & scores of civilians, Now can we go to War again?
Maybe Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco and his lying about it is the vehicle to remove him as president , and replace him with who ? Vice President Harris , that’s how it works right ? Seriously , is her incompetence enough to keep her from succeeding Biden as POTUS ?
I’ve said this ever since Biden picked Harris as his running mate , the plan was take Biden out somehow , IDK a visit from Bill and Hill , old age ? It looked like his failing faculties were going to be it , if not , this Afghanistan fiasco surely will. Ole Joe never fit in with the “woke” crowd. Now Joe’s surely gotta be on his way out over this Afghani shitstorm. Pull out then “surprised” by the Taliban’s lighting advance even saying in July that an afghanistan government collapse and Taliban takeover was highly unlikely . Even though you were advised it would happen months earlier thru an urgent cable sent via the dissenter channel
Obama didn’t kill enough at Benghazi. This is POS terrorist Obama’s “take two”! WHEN DO WE GET TO EXECUTE FATHER OF ISIS?
Biden, his entire administration and all democrats lie like rugs. Biden and all democrats must be held accountable for the Marines that were murdered in Afghanistan. Biden is a useless piece of crap along with Harris and all democrats