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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I just can’t make myself watch this.
The sight of this criminal makes me ill.
Besides that, it’s all just a show anyway. The GOP will release a couple of sound bites to “prove” that they’re fighting for us and that will be the end of it. They can lie to us and cheat us with impunity. We have all seen this crappy movie a hundred times already.
Yep, Same ole, same ole.
There is nothing new under the DC Sun.
DC Uniparty Status Quo.
they’ll send out a couple tweets that “totally destroy the narrative” – “brutal takedown”
aaaand, thats a wrap, folks! grab your fundraising kits on your way past stage left.
And “please send tons of cash” to support xyz.
Biden is sending $64 million dollars to help the Taliban terrorists.
Biden leaving the Taliban $85 billion in military equipment along with a pallet of $100 dollar bills, but apparently old joe wants to pay the terrorists even more.
Ditto, the pResident as well.
I’m very thankful for those here that watch and post comments about what these jacka#@es say so I don’t have to endure the pain.
I wish there was betting (to place bets), site that we could go to and bet on what kind of book deal he will get?
We could also bet, where will he pop back up after he “leaves the Gov”?
Lawfare? Perkins Cuie? MSNBC? Where will he keep ruling from?
You can bet their book deals have already been negotiated
How about just betting on the sound bites they spew. Same old line just different day.
drinking games for times they say things like “de-escalate” or “synergy” or “partners” with regard to Taliban.
You will get a faster buzz if you take a shot every mention of
PRESIDENT TRUMP.
Five minutes of blinken’s lies made me sick too. Enough is enough.
Remember , winken, blinken,and nod, I’m old, it’s another dc fairy tale.
I’ll watch the “SPARTACUS MOMENTS” the hearings produce on Youtube in a couple of days.
Meanwhile, it will take Congressmen like Devin Nunes & reporters like Glen Greenwald five years to unravel what really happened, then take another 5 years for John Durham to seat a Grand Jury and call witnesses, before Durham passes away mysteriously in his sleep, and Judge Sullivan seals it all for national security reasons, to prevent MAGA domestic terrorists from using it to undermine “Our Democracy”. Climate Change will of course be involved as well… but I am not sure how, other than it definitely gave the Taliban the decisive advantage.
The sight of do nothing committees make me ill.
All blather and faux outrage while using the hearing as PR for campaign fundraising.
I tried for a few minutes and then quit. It was just unwatchable, about as incoherent as listening to a Biden conversation. Perhaps even worse it just makes the contempt I feel for GOP/E elected Republicans grow even stronger.
He always reminds me of the weird kid in elementary school who sat in the corner eating glue and boogers-
Definitely not your alpha male role model.
Yeah…I definitely do not think of him as a macho male.
The women in this admin look more macho than the men.
the creep that’s the asst. sec, of health is both (rachel levine)
The Left prefer alpha females. Alpha males not so much.
I don’t remember you!
In the end it’s all kabuki theater used to circumvent responsibility while screwing the American citizen.
my bet: he takes the fall in a few weeks tops, resigns, everything is cool again because we found someone to place blame upon, he joins a thinktank and writes that tell-all book in time for 2022 elections.
It’s more likely that nobody resigns, nobody takes responsibility, and nothing changes.
You are right in that last part – – -nothing changes.
Oh yay. Another congressional hearing. More feckless GOP kabuki. The left has gotten so contemptuous that they don’t even bother hiding it when “answering”. Maybe not a psychotic smirk but defiant and dismissive. As well they can for all the real consequence that will come from the Republicans.
I disagree. Our Fake news needs material and distraction. How else will they set aside the Joebama disasters and get the sheep off their hair?
They know what they are doing. Also this gives the swamp an opportunity to pretend we have 2 parties.
It’s a TV show.Very necessary in any communist society.
Just once I would love to hear a GOP member spend their 5 minutes reading from something like Mad magazine or alice in wonderland.
maybe read from a book about potty training. with a dead serious face. and any time someone objects – you angrily demand your time be respected like anyone else’s.
LMAO.
I would not only pay money to hear that, but vote for them as well.
He’s on a hiding for nothing, as we used to say in the UK. There is no cover that can be constructed for his malfeasance, assuming of course that it was his, and not Obama’s, the actual one calling all the shots.
The Muslim brotherhood calls the shots in D C. Obama is their dancing boy.
Just saw the massive numbers showing the massive increase in the number of Muslims and mosques in the US since 2000. What you suggest is within the realm of the possible, given what we know of Obama.
Our Constitution says that “Treason shall consist of […] adhering to the enemy, giving him aid and comfort.”
“Aid and Comfort” could not be better defined as: billions of dollars in functional weapons, supplies and materiél, along with a fully-functional air base. Not to mention betraying tens of thousands of allies and citizens into the hands of their mortal enemies.
Like any competent military, we prepared a comprehensive withdrawal plan which would have saved everything and everyone, then destroyed or incapacitated everything else, leaving the enemy with nothing. We know that President Trump saw the plan because he referred to it many times. It would have taken a one-word order: “Execute.” But those were not the orders that were given by our high command.
It wasn’t our high command. It was Obama’s Meat Puppet In Chief.
Couldn’t follow the actual plan already set up. That would have given President Trump another win, as it was his plan.
Just like EOs all over the place as soon as SloJoe was in office to eliminate all that President Trump had put in place to
make sure none of his successful actions remained in place.
Let me guess……
The entire GOP side of this committee responds with
No Questions
dead serious here – if one of the GOP members spent their 5 minutes reading from some childrens book and with deadly seriousness, demanded their 5 minutes was just as valuable as all the others – i would donate to his/her campaign for that alone.
Wrong
Fake hearings conducted by fake phoney Uniparty frauds. Nothing ever happens to these assholes.
What # is this “lack of candor” affair?
Do you think he sleeps well at night?
The only evil that does is the kind that isn’t in the hot spotlight.
He’ll resign tomorrow.
The Senate will get their chance at him later. I just received this Michael Yon newsletter update:
Blinken Questions
Senator Johnson will question Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
His staff asked me for questions to pose.
I just passed the questions along. I will not post the questions — don’t want to tip off The Incompetents.
Will Aunt Linsey provide excuses preloaded in his ballless sack of questions and exonerate Blinken at the same time, kind of what he did for Comey, Yates, Powers and the rest of those scum bags.
Glad to see CTH back up…was getting error messages and several sites seem to be “timing out” when I try to load them. Just me or is anyone else having this issue? (PS – I am in Western Washington)
Hey you are not alone. I came here to look for this. Your worst fears may be in play here.
For about five minutes, each of 6-7 famous conservative sites I tried (tellingly, including the no-longer-conservative Drudge Report) was unreachable. Even the Babylon Bee. Yet every mainstream site was: NYT, ABC news, CNN, HuffPo, Google. (Twitter was unable to load comments. Breitbart was very slow but did load.) This was possibly a targeted DNS poisoning incident, possibly prep work for a later operation.
By my count that was about 11:35-11:40 this morning. Be warned. Back up your data. Save pages you want to refer to later.
By the way foxnews.com was up, for those wondering.
(Also western WA by the way vikingmom.)
Was happening to me yesterday in Michigan. Cleared my cookies and history, restarted and all worked fine.
He better be prepared to answer questions the right way, his book deal is on the line. One wrong answer and there goes the mansion on Martha’s Vineyard.
No pressure at all. He must be nervous. Bless his heart.
Be prepared for the fact Left-wing Libtards will not see it as we do. It is them seeing what they believe and not believing what they see.
It is like the mother with her daughter in a beauty contest who has a wart in the middle of her forehead. The mother cannot understand her daughter with a wart in the middle of her forehead did not win the beauty contest.
This entire illegitimate and incompetent administration, has been in daily cya mode since the fraudulent election.
That’s antisimetic
After he resigns, where will he pop back up?
Which swamp tied business in DC will he be ruling from?
Blinken needs to remember the old saying ” It is better to be thought an idiot than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”.
He crossed that bridge some time ago.
Which department (State or Defense)?
1) Gave the Taliban $84 Billion in top of line military equipment.
2) Gave $139 million, thru Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, to the Wuhan Bio-Warfare Lab, making it the Chinese Military’s biggest accomplice in the bio warfare attack that, just so far,has killed around 100 times as many Americans as Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined?
3) Spends the most department man hours and $$$ on promoting wokeness, CRT and LGBTQXYZ?
4) Spends the most department man hours and $$$ looking for white supremacists under beds and in closets?
O: (Oh, shit, he’s gonna say something. He’s gonna give us all away. Why is it my turn to babysit, today of all days?)
Joe: “GO, TALIBAN! GO, TALIBAN! GO, TAL…hey, you–yeah, you; how old are you, little girl?”
Jill: (This isn’t happening. This isn’t happening. This isn’t happening. This…)
Bill: (She’s old enough.)
Bloomberg: (She’s taller than me.)
Michelle: (She’s taller than Bloomberg.)
Hillary: *hic*
Does anyone know what he was yelling about and to who?
He just remembered the punchline to a joke Strom Thurmond told him in 1971.
almost certainly a … ahem… COLORful joke.
?
Bidung is yelling “put your mask on”.
Prediction, it won’t matter what he says. Even if he admitted that he is Glad what he did.
Look up the character “Blinken (the Blind)” in Mel Brooks Comedy, “Robin Hood Men in Tights”.
No more needs to be said.
This is what I think of every time I hear/read his name, except that Blinken in the Mel Brooks comedy was a good character!
I think of his line when Robin first gets back – “Robin, you’ve grown boobs!”
Ha ha ha… there are lots of good lines in that movie.
I have to clean the M2 50 cal on the Cub Cadet.
Large opossums and armadillos down here, you know.
? Right now, Democrats are trying to ram a massive amnesty for illegal immigrants through Congress.
Call your member and tell them NO to amnesty.?
Senator, STFU with the tweets and work against election fraud.
period.
It just seems like a game to me that we have to call for them to do their job.
Anyone else tired of being played? Next, “please donate so we can stop amnesty” followed by reelect us, so you can call us and donate so we can keep telling you we want to stop amnesty.
They campaign on stoping amnesty but we have to call them to remind them?
lulz good point.
“wait…. so THAAAATS what you people wanted me to do? This job sure is hard.”
Riiiiight… Lindsey Graham and Tom Rice routinely listen to their everyday constituents… NOT.
They don’t give a Wuhan bat’s ass (thanks to whomever I picked that up from) what we think about anything.
Like Kleen posted, what a joke to have to call and plead with these overpaid grifters to do the jobs they were elected to do.
Why bother. They don’t represent us anyhow, and they are gonna do what they want and send another begging for money note in response.
Had to leave, just could not stand Blinken’s diarrhea of the mouth responses thru the ranking members simple questions…which he did not answer in any manner directly. What a snake! This is so rigged, so predictable, so shameless…and so un-American.
Are there no straight shooters willing to tell the American people and their representatives the truths that they know without hiding behind “I can discuss this further in a special (classified) setting…”?
Musical chairs is their game, working to avoid the final match up, that being hot potato!
Compare these clowns with the two young women tennis players at this weekend’s US Open as they ascended the platform to receive the fans accolades and their respective trophies. Listen to their thoughts…as teenagers of mixed race parents from Canada. Honest, forthright and unscripted!
Throw these bums in Congress and this administration out! Clean house, clean everything in Washington! That will take majority voting.
And just who is trying to stop a verifiable voting system, an honest system of secret ballots by citizens, living and registered?
These people who are trying to rig our voting system are our direct enemies, only George Bush can’t even see them with glasses! Throw him out too!
In their weakness the need to deny accountability and try to blame former President Trump for their own tragic decisions is alarming and telling. Pitiful at best.
A nice hefty paycheck from a liberal university awaits him once he resigns.
Hah! Just realized “liberal” is redundant when it comes to most universities.
Does anybody think McCarthy will be Majority Leader when we take control of Congress?! I most certainly hope not. That would be the equivalent to committing “seppuku” for our party.
Transcript of Tony’s opening remarks.
He begins by reminding Congress they have supported the 20 yr war with their oversight and then, of course, he blames Trump
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA00/20210913/114044/HHRG-117-FA00-Wstate-BlinkenA-20210913.pdf
coming live right out of the mouth of the soros and treasonous, anti American osama “oscuma” bin obama puppet illegal 3rd term administration
Once again, terrible questioning strategies by the GOP representatives….ask the guy 4 questions in a row at the beginning? And then Blinken has all the remaining time to hem and haw, bloviate, talk about our international partners, yada yada yada…
Thanks again GOP
They had no plan and they have no plan going forward. The only thing assured is we will continue to send aid because they cannot feed themselves. Joe will probably send them EBT cards.
Biden just sent the Taliban terrorists another $64 million, because the $85 billion dollars of military equipment to them, plus the pallet of $100 bills, just wasn’t enough. ?
Any ‘deal’ involving President Trump was ‘null and void’ once Biden was installed.
Simple as that. ?
Like Obama said of old joe, not much Biden can’t screw up.
But, what is the goal of the fourth branch? If the office of the president is merely a tool for them to issue executive orders and control foreign policy and they have coopted and essentially control the senate through the SSCI and ignore the House when it is not under party control like they ignore and fight against opposition chief executives, what goal do they have besides self indulgence and profit. The only answer that makes any sense is a religious or deeply held ideological belief to follow. And yet, this writer cannot help think they are all smarter than that and simply mouth platitudes towards the pagan gods of the secular masses like Marx and Alinsky argued to control them and keep them distracted in order to achieve the oldest aim known to mankind self aggrandizement. Man’s attempt to become god on earth by fear and force. Seems like someone has always been trying to take over the whole planet since we learned to talk. The Muslims do it for their god. The secular power mad do it for money and fame I suppose.
Why can’t it just be money and no ideology or religion be involved? It is a criminal enterprise and those center around money. The President is just a punching bag to lay blame on and release anger against.
Rep. Joe Wilson [R-SC] just told Blinken that, ‘He should resign’
Read somewhere this morning that Blinken was reported to have been trashing other Biden officials over the weekend and is expected to resign this week.
I’ll see if I can find it.
I read that too, but thought it was during the weekend that Kabul fell, not this weekend.
oh, sorry. not sure now.
He won’t as he has Biden protecting him, but millions agree, he should resign, be indicted and then be tried and put in prison.
Resign?
Perhaps.
Indicted, tried and imprisoned?
That’ll be the day!
Yeah, he could be resign…and simply be replaced by someone with the same
ideology and equally or more incompetent.
Everyone in this admin has a replacement waiting if need be.
This hearing, as in the past, is all the same angry indignant talk ending in all the usual Uniparty satisfied inaction.
Case closed.
Anything and everything to keep the narrative focus off the fraudulent 2020 election audits. One day it is Afghanistan. One day it is Southern border. One day it is Covid vaccines.
Then “circle back” over and over again and again. It never ends and it won’t end until the Military ends it. Many think it will never happen and I can definitely see what it is people don’t think it will ever happen….but it will.
Is there anyone left in the top military brass that can do this?
It doesn’t necessarily need to depend on the Top Brass. There has been many military Coups within the military throughout history.
NO
John Ratcliffe on Levin had a blunt and chilling assessment of our current crop of government employees:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/john-ratcliffe-afghanistan-most-profound-loss-in-lifetime
Blinken did not implement the Trump conditions-based agreement with the Taliban. One just has to read the four page agreement. Reps need to challenge Blinken on the specifics. Low hanging fruit.
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/29/810537586/u-s-signs-peace-deal-with-taliban-after-nearly-2-decades-of-war-in-afghanistan
no, the Reps need to recite the following:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-lyrics-to-The-Diarrhea-Song
I’m sure most of the reps want it blamed on Trump, republican and democrat alike.
What a disgusting mess this government is.
I’m watching and the Trump Administration is being blamed for everything. This is pure BS. It’s just lie after lie. Blinken keeps saying he and his state department employees “ran into the building” to save Americans, are you kidding me, he is trying to make themselves heroes using language from 9-11.
This is the Republicans being “tough”; they hold inquests.
So let me see if I get this straight.. They couldn’t change the terms of POTUS
agreement that stated we would be out by MAY 1..yet they CHANGED the date
of withdrawal to AUGUST 31. How is that possible if they couldn;t change the
terms of the agreement?
Omgosh I can spit and break things. But I’m gonna continue to watch…bass the a ## is speaking or should I say card playing with gender…woman and girls…like she gives a darn.
Ugh
Lying BTards. The entire Executive Brench of the Biden Administration; is not only inept, but incompetent!
Since Benghazi, This Is The Government our Founders Warned Us About.
The time for Revolution is At Hand!
we’re all standing around waiting….
A deer stairing in the head lights. One of Bidens cast of dumb, dimwited and dangerous misfits. The republicans should be in the divers sit, that is should be will see!!!
Secretary of State Uh, Uhm, Uh…..geeez what an elitest dolt. It was all “Trumps Fault”!!
I have watched two interviews with Kash Patel, Epoch Times, Kash’s Corner.
Patel specifically gave details of giving the “Exit Plan”, which was “condition based” to this “Installed Regime” and
they literally did not give it a second look; they dismissed it.
Knowing that Patel and Pompeo both have come out publicly and given detailed accounts, why in Hell, would soy-boy Blinken sit there and say that the “Trump Administration did not have a Plan”?
There is lying and then there is slap-in-your-face, you know I’m lying, I know you know I’m lying, but I don’t give a damn; I’m just going to continue lying, lying, lying!
My husband turned this on for less than 5 minutes and I couldn’t contain my anger….he turned it off!
Thats why I literally think GOP members of these “hearings” should just start reading from books, or how about this one for their entire 5 minutes:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-lyrics-to-The-Diarrhea-Song
And the first time Pelosi suggests they are making a mockery of Congress, respond by READING IT AGAIN.
Are liberal Democrats born congenital liars or is it something they learn at their mothers’ knee? This is as nauseating as the Benghazi hearing with every D praising Winkin’ Blinken for his exemplary service… [spit]
I have the hearing on live, and I attempt to listen at times. This is all such simple malfeasance of our government live in action. The House Foreign Affairs Committee is a joke, this hearing is a joke…as all other hearings are a joke. All of These committees are just for the bought and paid for members ON BOTH SIDES to BLOVIATE. This means nothing. Absolute nothing.
You are to be admired. I cannot even turn it on, and depend on comments from brave souls such as yourself for updates. Most of us already know what to expect, having gone through countless meaningless dog and pony shows. There will be “OUTRAGE!!!” You will hear that there needs to be accountability, followed by Q & A’s (fundraising) in the hallway during breaks. This will conclude exactly as every other attempt to reform our corrupt system. A committee will be formed to investigate, a taxpayer-funded “study” will take place, and three years later, we will be told that “mistakes were made”. No punishmentt, no accountability, no justice. Same ole, same ole.
Every single time this guy has given a presser, he looks like he is in a hostage video. Every. Single. Time. He doesn’t look like he believes the garbage spewing from his own mouth. There is no way he sleeps at night, knowing he has sold his soul.
So far, the best number that Blinken can state regarding American citizens left stranded in Afghanistan is ” about a hundred”. And, that was a few weeks ago. When ( if) he is asked to give a precise number, he does the dance around. Dude still has not a clue. Only Two Republican reps as of this time, have asked for his resignation.