During the White House press briefing today, the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki once again made the claim that no one could foresee the rapid collapse of the Afghan government. That claim is the White House narrative, and despite the evidence to the contrary they are sticking to it… because a stunningly incurious media is allowing them to.
When questioned about the incompetence of the Biden administration not seeing the Afghan government collapse, Jen Psaki said today: “I don’t think anyone assessed that they would collapse as quickly as they did. Anyone — anyone in this room, anyone anywhere in the world,” Psaki responded, “If you have anyone who did I would be surprised.”
This continued White House claim is disputed by evidence provided by both the intelligence community and internal cables from the U.S. State Department. Let’s review; first ABC:
ABC NEWS – […] U.S. officials tell ABC News that the opposite was true, insisting that key intelligence assessments had consistently informed policymakers that the Taliban could overwhelm the country and take the capital within weeks. […] “[U.S.] leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban to take everything,” an anonymous U.S. intelligence official told ABC News. “No one listened.” (read more)
Then there was the internal State Department cables from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, dated July 13th:
WSJ – […] The classified cable represents the clearest evidence yet that the administration had been warned by its own officials on the ground that the Taliban’s advance was imminent and Afghanistan’s military may be unable to stop it. […] In all, 23 U.S. Embassy staffers, all Americans, signed the July 13 cable, the two people said. The U.S. official said there was a rush to deliver it, given circumstances on the ground in Kabul. The cable was sent to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Director of Policy Planning Salman Ahmed. Mr. Blinken received the cable and reviewed it shortly after receipt, according to the person familiar with the exchange. (read more)
Part of the distract-and-shove-down-the-memory-hole-so-we-can-go-about-the-business-of-destruction-on-American-soil we have this:
https://gellerreport.com/2021/08/christian-evangelicals-are-americas-taliban-actors-journalists-equate-american-christians-to-the-taliban.html/
Thankfully, most Americans hold “journalists” in lower regard than even politicians.
Low Opinion of Journalists
Bias and inaccuracy in journalism is nothing new. In 1919, Upton Sinclair wrote The Brass Check, an exposé of the American print press. It focused mainly on the Associated Press and how it favored certain business interests over labor and public health. The book heavily critiqued William Randolph Hearst who used “yellow journalism,” (stories based on rumor and innuendo,) as objective news.
As a result of this book, the American Society of Newspaper Editors adopted an ethics code in 1922, known as “The Canons of Journalism.” (Too bad few of them follow it today.)
Link to The Brass Check
https://archive.org/details/cu31924026364251
50 more points
100 total (DrZ) tied 2nd
There is a code for journalists?
They must have lost their de-coder rings?
“Politics is the last resort of a scoundrel”
Mark Twain
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This is rather humorous. The NSA has been spying on people for years. They know what underwear brand you are wearing. I can’t imagine that they did not track the movement of people and armaments from the Pakistan border during the fighting season, for God’s sake?!!!!!!! Do these motherf’rs think we are stupid? You know who made this all possible? the media. When it all turns to sh8t. They must account. EVERY SINGLE ONE.
According to Glen Grenwald and Snowden Afghanistan is one of the top 4 most monitored places in the world by the NSA. It’s all an outrageous lie. It’s so provocative it’s hard to believe it’s not intentional. trump and Flynn both are insisting this is simply stupidity. Trump said on OANN that it’s stupidity and assigning anything else makes them seem too intelligent
It is NOT stupidity. It is all according to the commie plan. Trump is wrong. Maybe that is why he was stabbed in the back so often, he thought the conniving back stabbers were all just stupid, so he underestimated them.
Quit ascribing stupidity to these politicians and commies. They wear that badge proudly because they know they have us fooled when we buy into that mantra.
Absolutely! This is not happening by random chance. Look at the rise of ISIS, the Arab Spring and Benghazi. Same play book!
Or same messed up stupid thinking? Same people you know caused the rise of ISIS, the Arab Spring, and the total turnover to the worst in Libya. They also got neo-nazis in Ukraine to overthrow that country’s democratically elected president and caused a civil war as a result. Very same people who all think alike, when they actually think.
US and UK were upset when the Ukrainian people elected a government more aligned with Russia than the West so they overthrew it to install a Western friendly government…they then got upset when Russia invaded the country over this installation and RECLAIMED their historic territory of Crimea back from Ukraine…when the LEFT says “Elections matter” it is conditional on their winning…the referendum realigning Crimea’s 90% Russian ethnicities with Russia were claimed as a fraudulent election by the Left
Biden and his handlers ceded the western world to China. That’s all. Biden is the perfect front for this. He is demented and one can ascribe stupidity and bungling to him, but you don’t leave $85 billion in weapons out of sheer stupdity. And the evil end of leaving Americans and Afghans that have helped us, not to mention the helpless animals as well, that is plain evil as well.
These people hate America and Americans.
Everyone involved the “leadership” of this Kabul disaster should be busting rocks in Leavenworth!
They are really stupid. I remember during Obama’s reign when Putin described DC as having mush for brains. That was around the time he sent men dressed in green in the dark of night and simply took control of Crimea while the WH sat there asking who are those green men?
President Trump is wise, as usual. Most thinking Americans know that this goes far deeper than incompetence. But for him to come out and offer a conspiracy (especially after a divisive and contested election) would be unhelpful. Best to allow the masses reach their own conclusions by believing their own eyes.
And it’s starting to happen.
Important point. Thank you. Here is a link to Greenwald’s latest article: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/ben-rhodes-book-proves-obama-officials?r=eooub&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=copy
He leans left, but is one of those old-fashioned journalists that goes where the truth leads him. An honest broker…
When it all turns to sh8t? It turned to sh8t a year and a half ago.
Bottom line…they saw the early collapse and did not respond appropriately OR they didn’t see the early collapse, despite intel sounding the alarm. Neither is acceptable. Stop making excuses.
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And to top it all off, she says out the other side of her mouth, that . . . ‘all contingencies were game-planned’.
Crisis meetings taking place as we speak. Who leaked to Reuters? How can we spin this one?
The delusional Bourbon Generals at the Pentagon were surprised. The Afghan Army was like their beloved son, the one they sired and raised and bragged about for almost 20 years. They were actually very impressed with themselves.And I’m sure they were able to convince Joe Dementia, with an estimated IQ of 72, of the fine work they had done.
They knew the Afghan army was only a shell created to be a money laundering front for the trillions they were all raking in. Biggest scam in history.
Sounds about right!
..if he can bully ukie gov….. why not afghans…
The same people that choose the “journalist questions” for him; told him not to?
The uniparty lies are so deranged and divorced from reality it’s hard to believe this continue.
The regime is hitting new lows. It’s extraordinary.
Even in the Bay Area I meet Democrats who sound like Donald Trump
Kitchen table politics. If it has an effect on a family’s economic well being, it effects the vote.
The recall is a referendum on not just Newsome, but demoncrat policies.
Any one care to give me odds about Newsome asking Biden not coming to California now?
If it starts at the top then it would appear that dementia is contagious … how else to explain the amount of gross oblivious ignorance.
I think it starts at the bottom…
Circle back, Jensaki, circle back.
You can spin, Jensaki, if you circle back.
Twist your crooked neck,
chop the truth to heck,
you’re a hack, Jensaki, cause you only circle back.
The July 13th cable….days after we deserted Bagram Air Base…..seems like a signal to me to “come on in”….
Jen psaki may be the dumbest person in the White House.
Were there 20 years. Paying mil strategy and logistics experts to run every damned scenario under the sun.
Jen can’t imagine that anyone could have imagined such a thing.
Just seeing a photo of her makes me dumber.
Small wonder the Russians invented the psaki unit of brain power after enough exposure.
Clams have an estimated 3 psaki units of brain power
Sorry! Joe Biden has retired that title!
Too funny! I just find myself wanting to bitchslap that smug mug of hers.
Lying Phony POS Troll.
The Real POTUS 46 Knew it.
When is this Psucky woman leaving, already?
BTW, there is no “real” POTUS 46. Donald J. Trump is POTUS 45 – no matter how many terms he serves, he will always be the 45th. Presidents are assigned their number individually, not in accordance to term or year.
We’ll always be stuck with Buyden as “46” – even though he is illegitimate. 🙁
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Psaki is a Colonel in the FSB Propaganda Branch.
Interesting…
If President Trump were to be Elected as President 2025, he would be considered both the 45th & 47th POTUS.
Precedent I would think would be Grove Cleveland who served 2 non-consecutive terms and was given both numbers. The 22nd and 24th POTUS?
Now… If #46 were to be Legally deemed Illegitimate???….
Well, the Grover thing was weird – but it would be weirder for Trump to be consecutively elected again after an illegitimate Buyden Presidency.
Yeah, who knows? Our framers didn’t prepare for this kind of insanity.
they are “assigned” their numbers SEQUENTIALLY…unless PDJT is placed back into his rightful place by the people after showing the massive fraud that occurred in 2020 and he is REELECTED in 2024 he will be the 45th AND the 47th POTUS…l@@k up Grover Cleveland the 22nd and 24th POTUS
When General Milley stated that they were surprised it took only 11 days for Afghan government to collapse. I thought I’m surprised it took that long. I saw the incompetency on the ground for sale year by US military and Afghan forces. Doomed to failure.
Yup. And no one in the media says that if our general was surprised by this, then perhaps he should step down.
The White House press core is a pathetic bunch of kiss butt commies. One of the major reasons we’ve sunk so deep into this hole is because of the media. They are all in on the agenda and will support this administration despite the obvious lying. When Trump was in office they did everything to destroy him and his administration. Very obvious what’s going on. Get ready for the next crisis.
No kidding. At Trump pressers, they were chomping at the bit, screaming questions, being incredibly disrespectful, putting their agenda on full display in the way they would frame their questions and/or make outright statements as part of the eventual question.
With Biden, it’s completely different.
So obvious and transparent. And yet, the left loves it and eats it up, thinks the press was appropriately “tough” on Trump. Similarly, they like the fact that the press doesn’t press Biden. That way the evil and madness of it all is kept in check.
Can you imagine how little respect you’d have for yourself if you knew someone lied to you all the time and you pretended they weren’t or that was ok, because that’s just how it works. And that was your profession. It’s repulsive.
Be sure to thank those military leaders who turned Americans away from safety for their service.
“No one could perceive of hijacking airplanes to knock down buildings.”
Except the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan warned us about it.
Yep… and most if this pdf is blacked out. But it says Massoud was assassinated over 9/11?
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB97/tal31.pdf
Yes. IIRC a Tunisian TV crew wanted an interview and used that excuse to detonate a suicide bomb. I wrote several papers in undergrad on the Soviet/Afghan conflict. Massoud is a hero of mine simply because he would not quit fighting and he loved his people. I am glad to see his namesake son is in the field with the President of Afghanistan. Fight on, brothers!
…and were instrumental in our early advances in Afghanistan…they were the ground forces with SpecOps FOs operating with them for air support strikes
Well, on 9/11, the NRO was running a drill of a plane crashing into one of their buildings (but due to malfunction and not hijacking)
https://archive.boston.com/news/packages/sept11/anniversary/wire_stories/0903_plane_exercise.htm
I remember only half watching the news about city after city falling to the TollieBahn. Then one night there was a map showing the area that had fallen. I looked to my wife and said, “They will have us surrounded at that big air base in less than two weeks.” I did not know about the base assuming no one would be stupid enough to abandon it until the end, but even I could look at a low resolution map and wild guess two weeks.
This entire administration, would be incapable of finding their asses with both hands, even if you spotted them one hand. They would still need an anatomy sketch for assistance.
It goes beyond the Administration. Those anti-American sentiments are prevalent throughout the joint chiefs of political correctness and the 5 rings of the Wokegon.
Then we have some like Lt. Col Scheller who are ready to lay it all on the line.
Sorry, I know people who were analysts and were scathing about the ANA’ s competence and the highly dubious, promotion boosting, assessments of the efficacy of their their training programmes. Worse, an estimated half of their combat strength was made up of the so called ‘ghost soldiers’, corrupt local officials had thousands of invented soldiers on their rolls so they could be paid their wages and sell their arms and equipment to the highest bidder. I wonder if the US giving the stockpiles of weapons to the Taliban was partially to cover up how many weapons had already been sold, as Allied troops usually made meticulous records, before a cache was destroyed.
I woke last Sunday early to Fox playing a video from a Trump speech in 2017. Trump was explaining that he could not just jerk all of our soldiers out of Afghanistan because the Taliban would immediately do exactly what we have been watching them do the last couple of weeks. If anyone has a link, I would so appreciate.
Trump warns against Afghanistan withdrawal – YouTube
Note the ‘instantly’ and no artificial differentiation between the groups. But sure, no one predicted the collapse!!
Anyone else smell 25th Amendment in the air?
Nope – he’ll feign an illness………………….not that her has to fake one!
That would be easy.
He has COVID!
Oh my.
COOTUS has COVID!
That ‘ll do it.
“Because of all the unvaxxed and unmasked people.”
“Round ’em up!”
Leaving people behind is part of the plan, so now they can send money to get the O’Bamabans to release them, one at a time. So they can now finance them, and claim they are doing good.
Many great monikers coined tonight:
Obamabans ?
Someone above called the Pentagon the Wokegon.
Clever treepers!
The Afghan people won’t abide the Taliban for very long.
Any religion inspired government is wacky from the get go. Most especially one based on a 12th century model of governing.
We absolutely cannot send the Taliban their money, ever.
Tell that to the people of Iran. “Not very long” has been a long time.
Game set match to John on that one.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”
– Voltaire
On the other hand, some people who say they were influenced by Voltaire committed their share of “atrocities”, Napoleon, Frederick the Great, Catherine the Great, the anarchists and socialists of the 3rd French Republic.
Still, we are Governed by those who managed to make our fellow dumbcits believe absurdities and commit atrocities.
Which says nearly as bad things about our fellow dumbcits as about our Overlords.
Psaki Bagdad bobbette
Once China collapses the dollar, and the civil war begins it won’t matter much.
The next several months will be quite intense.
Monty Python – The Quest for The Holy Grail – the “run away” scene
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What ever happened to “we are prepared for any and all contingencies” as opposed to “we are not prepared for anything”
What is said in the past is erased in their minds. A statement of theirs has a life expectancy of only the date and time its made.
Forget any recorded evidence.
Its an illusion.
/s
Hidin’ Biden lied.
Americans died.
We are Ruled by the equivalent of The Middle School Cool Kids Mafia.
They have no concept of reality outside of their own hype.
Withdrawal of foreign forces. The United States agreed to reduce its number of troops in the country from roughly 12,000 to 8,600 within 135 days. If the Taliban follows through on its commitments, all U.S. and other foreign troops will leave
Afghanistan within fourteen months. Experts have cautioned that pulling troops out too quickly could be destabilizing
https://www.cfr.Org/backgrounder/us-taliban-peace-deal-agreement-afghanistan-war
2019 – Consequences of a Precipitous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan
https://www.rand.Org/pubs/perspectives/PE326.html
But for the reasons cited in this paper, a post-withdrawal
collapse might come sooner.
And so might the regret. The enemies that drew the
United States back into Afghanistan in 2001 and back into
Iraq in 2014 are still present in Afghanistan in 2019.
Little Red Lying Hood.
Biden is not president.
Psaki is not press secretary.
Why this endlessly horrible, ludicrous theatre?
The emperor is buck naked, but all the little boys are silent.
So you’re saying the Bid3n WH lies? Quelle surprise!
Wouldn’t PSaki on her even if she was on Fire In The Middle of The Road!
She represents what happens when someone sells their soul, dignity, honor, and integrity to the highest bidder.
The woman has a terminal case of CRI.
Where is a drunk driver hen you really need one?
We the people could see it coming, so that means the Biden administration is incompetent or willfully negligent or evil. No matter which choice is made the result should be the same, GONE!