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CNN: Officials Saying They Came up with Afghanistan Evacuation Plans ‘From Scratch’ Contradict Biden Admin.’s Claims
Breitbart ^ | 04/05/2024 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 04/05/2024 11:04:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood discussed her report on transcripts of congressional testimony by State Department officials John Bass, James DeHart, and Jayne Howell where DeHart said that tactical operations to get important people to the airport were created “from scratch” and the Bass said that the evacuation “substantially exceeded…the scope and scale of what had been contemplated.” And noted that the descriptions contradict the rosier picture of the evacuation painted by the Biden administration.

Atwood said, “The chaos on the ground after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, a reflection of the chaos behind the scenes from the State Department. … The officials painted a tumultuous picture of the evacuation, one testifying, ‘[W]e had to…create from scratch tactical operations that would get our priority people into the airport.’ He added, ‘[W]e were roughly as effective as we could be under the circumstances.’ Another saying he was never briefed on an established evacuation plan because, ‘we were already in the midst of executing an evacuation that substantially exceeded…the scope and scale of what had been contemplated.'”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; evacuation; officials; scratch
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From scratch?? Did they use a coloring book?
1 posted on 04/05/2024 11:04:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They had years to plan an orderly and safe withdrawal. They turned it into a gigantic Cluster Fark just so Joe could say “I got us out after 20 years.”


2 posted on 04/05/2024 11:07:59 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward SnowdenA)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
No....Trump had a plan...it was contingent on the Muzzies acting up.

Biden ignored the acting up...and voila....disaster.

3 posted on 04/05/2024 11:09:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

mmm....more like pulled it out of their nether regions


4 posted on 04/05/2024 11:09:12 AM PDT by xp38
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To: ChicagoConservative27

back of the napkin... right???


5 posted on 04/05/2024 11:10:16 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I bet any and all insider Pentagon kiss-asses and climbers, knowing that the deep-state political winds had shifted and the plan was to leave Afghanistan, RAN away from any connection to, or work on, the evacuation plan.

Insiders now wanted zero association with it, which means terrible support, terrible execution, and terrible accountability

I’ve seen this phenomenon in many corporate and government bureaucracies.


6 posted on 04/05/2024 11:10:39 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As effective as we could be? Well yeah you incompetent never done nothing in your lives useless deep state douches. Of course the best you could do was an utter cock-up. We wouldn’t have expected anything more from a bunch of corrupt leftists.


7 posted on 04/05/2024 11:11:02 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Flour, eggs, some Baking Soda and Baking Powder.


8 posted on 04/05/2024 11:11:27 AM PDT by gitmo (If your biography doesn't match your theology, what good is it?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There was no plan.


9 posted on 04/05/2024 11:13:23 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: gitmo

Eggs. They come from chickens which is meat protein which causes global warming. Just use weaving infested flour for your protein.,


10 posted on 04/05/2024 11:14:30 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who are we supposed to believe here?


11 posted on 04/05/2024 11:14:31 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: PGR88

Add to that a diaper brain for an executive administration, and leadership which should have solidified pentagon leadership here and you have a clear military SNAFU from top to bottom.


12 posted on 04/05/2024 11:18:15 AM PDT by Bayard
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To: Sacajaweau

What else is knew, everything he touches turns to sh*t


13 posted on 04/05/2024 11:21:44 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“just so Joe could say “I got us out after 20 years.”

Now he can say he got 20 million foreigners into America in 4 years.


14 posted on 04/05/2024 11:22:38 AM PDT by cymbeline
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"From scratch?? Did they use a coloring book?"

Could have at least bought a copy of "Afghanistan Evacuation Plans for Dummies."

15 posted on 04/05/2024 11:25:18 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Buy done

https://gab.com/Matt_Bracken/posts/112218352673892448/media/1


16 posted on 04/05/2024 11:31:06 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood” lol, okay. No longer a mere “repoter,” she’s now a “Correspondent.”


17 posted on 04/05/2024 11:36:11 AM PDT by cdcdawg (The "rainbow flag" is the symbol of Western neo-imperialism. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

DC insiders helping each other come up with the plan from scratch:

https://monkeyworlds.com/rhesus_macaque_monkeys_scratching_backs/#google_vignette


18 posted on 04/05/2024 11:36:14 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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Nobody with even half a brain believes Biden acted in the best interests of the US or its people. There were many Americans in Afghanistan (some still left abandoned there).

Yet hundreds of Afghans knew when and where the US
rescue plane was landing and were safely flown to America.


19 posted on 04/05/2024 11:37:54 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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Nobody with even half a brain believes Biden acted in the best interests of the US or its people. There were many Americans in Afghanistan (some still left abandoned there).

Yet hundreds of Afghans knew when and where the US
rescue plane was landing and were safely flown to America.


20 posted on 04/05/2024 11:40:10 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father wIho art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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