Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the handling of the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Secretary Blinken will be defending the interests of the White House and Pentagon while riding the dragon of a rogue agency, The State Department, he ultimately does not control.
The House, under the control of Democrats, is aligned with defending Joe Biden more than the Senate. The Senate is more attached to the interests of the underlying institution of the Fourth Branch of Government, the State Dept, CIA and Intelligence apparatus. The House is therefore more friendly to the political interests of Blinken and Biden. Pro-interventionist Republicans on the committee, led by Mike McCaul, will be trying to protect the Pentagon while holding Biden accountable.
Testimony and obfuscation is scheduled for 2:00pm ET and will last for a while. Livestream Links Below:
10 Tampa Livestream – Alternate Livestream 1 – Alternate Livestream 2 (Reuters)
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Rep. Ann Wagner, Excellent job
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This guy is a poser. I heard he laid blame on Trump for his condition related exit strategy. It is guaranteed that the sh*tshow we all witnessed would have never happened if PDJT was re-elected. I bet he got his start blaming a sibling when he “tooted” in the car.
I keep thinking of the rhyme “Winkin, Blinkin and Nod”Well Ole Pedo Joe is the “Nod” and I would say Gen Milley would be Winkin since he said the exact opposite to Trump from what he said to Pedo Joe. which makes Milley a “Yes” man.
Whatever he testifies will be considered truth to all the fact checkers no matter how many lies he tells.
We know the truth,thats all that matters.Keep spreading the word wherever and to whom ever.Fact checkers have all received their 30 pieces of silver they are of no effect to the majority of We the People.
Rep Mast, Thank you, absolutely keep demanding the truth, the American people deserve no less.
So… will this amateur commie step down and open the door for… the return of the Hildabeast? The Clinton Foundation could be right back on top again…
“The inept Afghan government, led by corrupt President Ghani, released 5,000 prisoners—not the Trump Administration. Secretary of State Blinken is doing everything in his power to make the most inept withdrawal in history look, at least, acceptable. It never will. “Now it is understood, on top of everything else, that billions of dollars will be paid to Afghanistan to help them along the way. The so-called leaders of our Country have gone crazy!” – President Donald J. Trump
I wish he would just start doing an MST3000 style dub over from all the footage – just him commenting and laughing at them nonstop.
Some think this is incompetence and stupidity.I ts not ,its by design by the likes of b o,g s and other nwo types.
Ghani released those ISIS-k prisoners at
Biden’sObama’s demand.Huh, everything I’ve read says Trump forced Ghani to release those 5K jihadis by Trump?
Sometimes I am tempted to see if the Doha agreement is online, but it is truly “what difference, at this point, does it make”.
It is pointless to speculate what would have happened if not for the Big Steal. It is impossible to know.
All we DO know is what happened on Plug’s watch
I really tried to watch this. it’s unbearable.
Ted Lieu blaming President Trump because President Trump told the Taliban to back off or else.
We need people who will actually enact the ‘or else’.
Not gonna happen with this current regime. He doesn’t even know where he is, let alone what he is supposed to be doing (unless he hears it in his implant).
I can honestly say that I sat on the board for the Booster Club of a Little League team, and we had higher standards for our coaches than we do for our elected officials.
Testifying all the way from his DC office, Blinken was given the option to show up in person.
That way his lawyers can sit front of him with answers instead of behind him in the hearing room.
“They” gave him the “option”— what was his “option” on wearing pants to today’s hearing?
Republican representatives are doing a good job bringing up the important facts that must be answered. The left may speak of unity, yet we cannot have unity where the left offers no honesty, accountability or integrity. Keep fighting for the common people republicans.
Some of us here believe in the power of prayer, and we prayed every day with Grandma Covfefe for the recovery of the little boy thrown off a Minneapolis third floor balcony by a madman. The child has mostly recovered, reportedly.
Asking (for those of us who pray) to remember those who died, and especially those who were wounded in Afghanistan. This article only provides two names:
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews of Folsom, California, and
Cpl. Kelsee Lainhart of st. Leon, Indiana
https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2021/09/01/15-marines-wounded-in-afghanistan-are-being-treated-at-walter-reed-national-military-medical-center/
Prayers
Like all other committee “hearings,” this one is worthless. Blinken’s non-answers are continuously ignored to allow another preening soliloquy by yet another dim-witted, but well-dressed representative. Sorry- I feel all these hearings are totally useless, just free airtime for our royalty.
Makes our elected/non-elected individuals appear like they are doing something when the only thing they do is enrich themselves
There’s a 1788 vibe to this, and much more concerning our elites.
Our soldiers were killed helping to leave Afghanistan. They left American citizens behind knowing they would become “hostages”
This Secretary of State can’t show up in person?
This when they trot out Hillary Clinton for another stab at the Sec. of State….on the Anniversary of Benghazi. They love an Anniversary. They love their symbolism.
Rep. Perry to DailyCaller: “I was informed that the Secretary was interviewed by the FBI with regard to Hunter Biden, Barisma, and his Blue Star Strategies…”
“A little off-topic here, but I think it is interesting. How long was your recent interview with the FBI and was it a deposition?” Perry asked Blinken.
Blinken responded by saying he does not know what Perry is referring to. He would not deny being interviewed by the FBI, saying it would be inappropriate to comment.
“Are you saying you have not had an interview with the FBI since becoming the Secretary Of State?” Perry asked. “I am not asking you to comment on the legal proceedings. I am just asking if you have been interviewed by the FBI since becoming Secretary Of State.”
“Again, I am not going to comment one way or another on any legal proceedings or not that may or may not have happened,” Blinken responded.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/13/antony-blinken-scott-perry-refuses-answer-interviewed-fbi-secretary-of-state-hunter-biden/
Shades of Hillary Clinton, again. She was interviewed by FBI on a holiday weekend with her lawyers present and she wasn’t sworn in. Later that day, Hillary and her FBI friends attended “Hamilton”.
Blinken seems to love his Hamptons. ? He was there during the “surrender” of Afghanistan and again last weekend. When and where would the FBI “interview” him. Did he receive the Hillary Special Treatment?
The Dims just attacked Justice Kavanaugh— again. They claimed he wasn’t interviewed by the FBI enough—though it has been numerous times.
I’d rather see Hillary as our new ambassador to Afghanistan.
Oy! I could only watch so much of this clown show. Blinken- liar liar pants on fire! And for him to actually blame Trump & say “we” ( the Biden admin) did not get an A-Stan withdrawal plan?? Wot!! For days/ weeks one can read the details of the plan President Trump had put in place since 2020. Make the incompetent fool resign along with Sec Def Austin & the military geniuses. What a mess! He blatantly says only 100 Americans still in A-Stan. Not so fast there are much more. And what about the Americans & Christian Afghanis Glen Becks group is still trying to get out of town. Think Blinken said they are working on getting the planes out. Not enough Blinkin. Evil man.
How in the world does McCarthy have little Adam on any committee? He placed the blame on Trump. Just another example of the corrupt GOP leadership.
I don’t think the minority leader has any say as to what dems are on a committee,
He is a rino but McCarthy has to appoint him.
How much time is wasted in DC on useless investigations that we all already know the real answers and the bogus results they will spew to us
Nuke DC
That’s the only way to be sure.
AS PLANNED !!!
Afghans have been marrying their 1st cousins for a thousand years. The people Biden’s handlers are bringing to our shores are inbred, low IQ mutts who would leave their wives and children on the side of any dirt road for a free ride out and a cheeseburger. FEDGOV means no good no good no good for the United States, their Constitution or their people. https://www.takimag.com/article/for-whom-the-bell-curve-tolls/
NIH says consanguineous marriage is high in Islamic societies and very high in Afghanistan.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21729362/
The dead eyes of a Democrat scumbag.
They will talk back and forth for days and say nothing and accomplish absolutely nothing.
They’re still playing the game even though they know we know.
Clowns all of them, evil devious and very dangerous clowns.
The real story being narratived away from the sunlight by the MSM, “Is the fact after ~20 years of involvement in Afghanistan and trillions spent to stand up the Afghan people to resist Islamist fundamentalism fell so quickly in short order.”
Let that sink in!
Just what was accomplished!
The Pentagon, DoD, the CIA and the DoS have much to answer to the American people and those that put blood and sweat into this ~20 year boondoggle.
The only intelligent obversion that can be made about the outcome was, “It was paper FRAUD!”
And my only questioning take away is that, “I am precisely over target in that the crickets in the foreground are NOT even leveling this route of inquiry.”
WTF
I will say it again, “The level of fraud and corruption of standing up the Afghan populace as a bulk work to Islamic fundementalism was nothing more than a shell game, and maybe from the oneset.”
That being said ” Of being able on paper, to cite statistics to justify the expenditures of our National Treasure that only resulted in an Afghan army able to resist in name only!”
Was only nothing more than a paper army in name.
That is the true failure in Afghanistan, that needs accounting at the highest levels of political levels of leadership that promoted this fictitious paper army.
At some point, the fraud and games played by those of any given Afghan national commanders must have been known and where very much at the political echelons of the DOD top leadership of creating this paper army.
In that the numbers being reported to justify the expense didn’t add up to the factual creation of, “This fictitious paper army.”
Yet, the DoD still poured in many billions based on this fictional army as a reality of its creation.
That my folks, “Is a fraud of oversight and one that spelled out a doomed colossal failure.”
When it became the crunch time of our withdrawal from guardians of Taliban advancement.
Nothing speaks more clearly towards these political calculations then that of an Afghan Army was nothing more than an army in name only.
“Then the virtue signaling surround the withdrawal was likely highly politically prefaced and aware of this reality that the Afghan army was nothing more than a paper fraud and could not stand on their own.
Why else, “Other than a than the predispositioning management of the withdrawal by the DoS of misdirection that ever leads away from striving from questioning this fundemental deception.
The only conclusion and take away about the national creation of an afghan army based on the needs/requirements of such a forcec can I my be based of minimalistic requirements.
Thus this identifies this minimalist requirements became the sole focus of measure of the corruption on paper that was the Afgany army. “That was ever placed toable to stand up to the Taliban post-withdrawal.”
At what point did the political powers to be, ” Decide that to pull curtain, and thus exposing the paper fraud of an Afghan army, “Say to due, to say, so will expose the fraud that trillions of National Treasure would expose the fraud of Afghan paper army.
Basically, as the withdrawal unfolded, ” To take actions that suggested this paper army would collapse would in effect expose the oversight lie of the monies spent in standing up a National Afghani Army to the Taliban, “Was nothing more than wishful thinking and wanting to believe the positive measurable outcomes that greased the machine for ever more larger expenditures. To decide to pull the plug
So, the politics became, “Nothing more than what inescapable unfolded.”
My point is the narrative was constructed from the get go, to precisely lead away from any inquiry that the trillions spent on the Afghan Army, “Was nothing more then a paper shell game.”
I don’t blame Afghan Nationals for believing the song and dance of the DoD/Dos/CIA rhetoric.
I however do believe absolutely, those at the highest level within the DoD, Dos and CIA where very much aware of the dupliciy of the manifested fraud at the highest level.
What else explains the complete collapse of Afghan Army at the very moment of Truth.
The only explanation is that billions of dollars of expenditure was nothing more than a shell game to say the least “That the DOD strategy in the end of advancing a winning premise only looked good on paper
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Hence as the withdrawal as it unfolded, the political powers to be, with ever more consignation, “Knew with absolute scrutiny that the past ~twenty years to standing up an Afghan force to resist the Taliban was nothing more than wishful thinking, and the moment of do or die.
Was politically one sided on the factoid of MSM outcomes that to pull the plug on the inexplicable fact to start withdrawals would signal the complete collapse of the Afghan government as a fraud twenty years in the making.
That is with the with the perchancet that extraction of US Nationals and select Afghan Nationals at risk, “Would naturally run the risk of precipitating the very thing being sought to avoid.
That is the untold billions was misspent and only existed on paper as bulk work to Islamic fundamentalism as means of wealth extraction policies.
So this weekend’s pronouncements of 2001 untity falls entirely flat. With those that were parade forth, “Where none other than the very political operatives that sided with MoveOn dot com and Code Pink to udermine any effective semblance of unity at the very time our men and women where fighting the war on terror.
It is sickening beyond belief.
And the DoD wonders why, those that have served the National calling are dissolutioned.
Maybe, they are at the last truely independent free thinkers worthly of liberty and free thinking.
Of the best mold of the American spirit looking at the main stream societal constructs and going, “What does service actually mean anymore.”
What tributary sacrifice can explain away any more the domestic political football players are not playing with National Service Lives with absolute contempt
I staight face actually mean this!!!
Under the weight of the MSM repository activity seeking to undermine the sacrifice!!!
“At every step and turn!”
I loath to say it, but observations speaks volumes towards the effectiveness of this MSM pronouncement.
That in my opinion is the blood the MSM shares in this responsibility.
The MSM has no shame. They are decidely against this born in blood sacrifice.
This is downright embarrassing…
Glen Beck’s update:
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THIS ADMINISTRATION????? I LOATHE THEM WITH ALL THAT IS IN ME.
This is un- f****ing believable. Why is Glen the only one doing this work??
And why are the Bidenistas stopping them?
Truly this administration is the most evil group of people on the planet.
There are 3 characters in the children’s book, Winkin, Blinkin and Nod. They are all little kids and not too bright. Apparently the State Dept blinkin is one of the foolish little kids.
Did Blinken perjure himself when he said the Trump administration did not provide an exit plan?
Yes, and all the Dems say, So what?
The blinking of the winking blinking and nod trio may be on his way out. This was his swan song.
Say good night Gracie.
I wish someone would ask Blinken what was the State Department doing in Libya with all those MANPADs (Portable anit-aircraft missiles) and why were they selling them to Al Qaeda?
Rumor is that Blinken will be resigning, it is almost like today was pre-mediated to fulfill that rumor.
He’s such a weasel. It’s hard to watch him speak.
Watched as much of this as I could stomach. The Dems propped him up and blamed Trump. A few Republicans demanded answers and very little was teased out of Blinken. The rest was a stage show…….as usual…….All in all, a disgrace. I doubt today’s Senate hearing will be much different. Perhaps though, he’ll actual show up in person but I doubt it. He was all safe in his cocoon at DOS yesterday. Wouldn’t want to expose himself to face to face questioning.