Fox News host Tucker Carlson opened his show tonight asking some very serious questions about Afghanistan while contrast against a very incurious U.S. media. The entire opening segment is well worth watching.
Centcom Commander Kenneth McKenzie: “I’m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal in Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens, third country nationals and vulnerable Afghans.”
The last military plane out of Afghanistan departed at 3:29 p.m. on the East Coast — that’s 11:59 p.m. in Kabul. We are officially out of Afghanistan. According to General McKenzie, “The vast majority of U.S. citizens who wanted to leave, were evacuated.” However, he later continued, “There’s a lot of heartbreak. We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out.”
Attempting to reassure the nation of the federal government’s competence in the aftermath of a devastating Hurricane Ida, Joe Biden introduces the woke FEMA officials who will be coordinating the recovery effort. The outcome was, unfortunately, exactly what you would expect.
Within the confidence building effort, Biden introduces “his boy” Senior Advisor and Director of Public Engagement, Cedric Richmond. Things go downhill from there:
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Team one (DoS/CIA) are really putting Team two (WH/DoD) on the defensive with this leak. [Pentagon video at bottom]
According to a Politico report, using leaked classified intelligence from the U.S. intel community, the Pentagon knew well in advance that a suicide bomber was coming to the Abbey Gate long before the explosion. According to the leak, the military knew where and when the attack was coming; and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned allies to avoid the area.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chief’s Chariman Mark Milley, and CentCom Commander General Kenneth McKenzie all knew in advance the Abbey Gate was going to be bombed on Thursday, yet they kept the gate open.
(Politico) – Just 24 hours before a suicide bomber detonated an explosive outside Hamid Karzai International Airport, senior military leaders gathered for the Pentagon’s daily morning update on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.
Speaking from a secure video conference room on the third floor of the Pentagon at 8 a.m. Wednesday — or 4:30 p.m. in Kabul — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instructed more than a dozen of the department’s top leaders around the world to make preparations for an imminent “mass casualty event,” according to classified detailed notes of the gathering shared with POLITICO.
During the meeting, Gen. Mark Milley, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned of “significant” intelligence indicating that the Islamic State’s Afghanistan affiliate, ISIS-K, was planning a “complex attack,” the notes quoted him as saying. Commanders calling in from Kabul relayed that the Abbey Gate, where American citizens had been told to gather in order to gain entrance to the airport, was “highest risk,” and detailed their plans to protect the airport.
“I don’t believe people get the incredible amount of risk on the ground,” Austin said, according to the classified notes.
On a separate call at 4 that afternoon, or 12:30 a.m. on Thursday in Kabul, the commanders detailed a plan to close Abbey Gate by Thursday afternoon Kabul time. But the Americans decided to keep the gate open longer than they wanted in order to allow their British allies, who had accelerated their withdrawal timeline, to continue evacuating their personnel, based at the nearby Baron Hotel.
American troops were still processing entrants to the airport at Abbey Gate at roughly 6 p.m. in Kabul on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest there, killing nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. service members. (read more)
Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby was furious about the intelligence leak when questioned earlier today. WATCH:
The U.S. State Department and Intelligence Community (Team 1) are really targeting the White House and Pentagon (Team 2) with this leak.
The deepest part of the Deep State is attempting to protect itself
A very interesting internal dynamic amid U.S. institutions and their media PR networks solidifies around a lengthy Washington Post report about the day Kabul fell to the Taliban. It’s not the story per se’ that provides the clarity, although the details are interesting; but rather the intent of the narrative around the story putting accountability for the lack of Kabul security upon the Pentagon.
Remember, Team #1 (State Dept./CIA) use CNN and the Washington Post; while Team #2 (White House, Pentagon, NSC) do not.
The internal battle amid U.S. government institutions, two teams, in the Afghanistan-crisis blame game, are reflected by this organizational relationship between two U.S. Govt. factions and their media allies. The overarching problem in this part of the blame game is the security situation in Kabul, specifically the lack of security which led to a terrorist attack that killed 13 American service members at the Kabul airport and wounded hundreds more.
According to the Washington Post outline, the Taliban offered to stay out of the capital city until the U.S. military had departed; however, during an in-person meeting between the head of the Taliban, Abdul Ghani Baradar, and U.S. Central Command Commander, Kenneth F McKenzie, the U.S. general told the Taliban to take the city but leave them the airport.
(WaPo) – […] In a hastily arranged in-person meeting, senior U.S. military leaders in Doha — including McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command — spoke with Abdul Ghani Baradar. “We have a problem,” Baradar said, according to the U.S. official. “We have two options to deal with it: You [the United States military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it.”
Throughout the day, Biden had remained resolute in his decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan. The collapse of the Afghan government hadn’t changed his mind. McKenzie, aware of those orders, told Baradar that the U.S. mission was only to evacuate American citizens, Afghan allies and others at risk. The United States, he told Baradar, needed the airport to do that.
On the spot, an understanding was reached, according to two other U.S. officials: The United States could have the airport until Aug. 31. But the Taliban would control the city. (read more)
To be fair to General McKenzie, at the time of the conversation the Afghanistan government had collapsed.
Absent the Afghan army in place, if McKenzie decided to take responsibility to secure the entire city of Kabul, he would have needed to ask the White House for a lot more U.S. troops; or attempt to personally take charge of the sketchy Afghan army. A very tall, perhaps impossible, order. McKenzie decided to let the Taliban take the city.
Ken McKenzie ain’t no Doug MacArthur.
I’m sure this inflection point, and this specific moment of extreme consequence, will loom over the head of General McKenzie for the rest of his life.
However, putting aside the very interesting details of those hours for a moment, what we can see through the prism of the narrative -as engineered by the Washington Post on behalf of their supportive institution (U.S. intel)- is the deflection of blame onto the White House via the Pentagon, specifically CentCom commander Ken McKenzie.
The internal dynamic of the two competing teams inside our dysfunctional government is really quite remarkable to watch play out. ♦Team One consists of the U.S. State Dept (DoS) and the CIA (U.S. Intel). ♦Team Two consists of the White House, Pentagon and National Security Council. Team One uses CNN, CNNi and The Washington Post. Team Two use the traditional alphabets (ABC, CBS, NBC) and NYT/Politico.
Both teams created the mess in Afghanistan on behalf of their constituencies ($). Both teams are looking to avoid scrutiny and place responsibility at the feet of the other team.
In this Washington Post example, the CIA/DoS are blaming Ken McKenzie (the Pentagon), and by extension blaming the White House.
Additionally interesting is the seemingly sympathetic narrative from CNN and WaPo toward the position of the Taliban. Narrated as if they are a misunderstood band of tribal troublemakers who now have this large responsibility to run an entire nation. When you recognize how the State Dept and Intel community operate, you can see exactly where this type of narrative is heading….
It’s like we said earlier, Team One is in alignment with the United Nations objective and now conveying emotional sympathies. Yup, the Taliban are headed toward full legitimate recognition by the U.N. with the ‘we are the world‘ State Department crew leading the way.
If Sleepy Joe Biden is cognitively challenged, has dementia, or is otherwise too old for the job, he needs to be removed. If Joe is making the major gaffes intentionally, then he’s a traitor and needs to be removed.
I think it’s a combination of both—Biden is both demented and a traitor.
Traitor Joe seems to be doing the bidding of China. Joe opened our borders to whomever wants to wander in—and who knows how many gang members and terrorists are already in America just waiting to wreak havoc. Joe has weakened our military with the destructive ‘wokeism’ as well as insisting that all troops receive unsafe and ineffective injections for the virus.
Joe turned over billions of military equipment to the Taliban and even groveled to them. Joe has backstabbed Afghans who have helped us as well as the rest of our allies. Joe is intentionally destroying America’s reputation. Such weakness benefits China. Biden is encouraging more attacks against us.
The Chinese communists must see this as an opportune time to attack Taiwan, and backstabber Joe might even help, rather than hinder such an invasion.
— Ben Garrison
This does not support the lies of an armed insurrection being pushed by the Democrats and the Deep State to justify the loss of more rights and the usurpation of unbridled power. There were clearly government operatives in the building and my bet is they were the leaders to ensure the people entered the capital building.
This is an unbelievable story of a rogue Judge James A. Shapiro who has just proven he is UNQUALIFIED to be a judge and should be removed from the bench FORTHWITH!!!! In a stunningly illegal decision that is 100% against the Constitution and everything the United States stood for, this crazy judge, Sua sponte (Latin for “of one’s own accord; voluntarily”), in the most unprecedented legal decision I have ever heard, stripped a mother of all parental rights over her son because she was NOT vaccinated. This judge presides at Chicago’s Daley Center, stripped Rebecca Firlit of custody because she refuses to get a vaccination shot. Worse is the fact that the judge simply asked her if she was vaccinated on his own accord. It was never brought up by her ex-Husband. Of course, his disgusting lawyer admitted he was surprised, but now he defends the judge showing he too should be disbarred.
A huge is to listen to a dispute between two people. He is not allowed to Sua sponte raise a defense that was not presented. This shows he was not acting as a legal adjudicator but has a BIASED and is obviously incompetent to think for himself and strips a mother of her right to see an 11-year-old son BECAUSE he believes in vaccines. Her husband should have made such an argument and then you get to put on a defense. Here, her husband made no such request and the judge denied her Due Process of Law for she was never allowed to put on defense against getting a vaccination.
It is people like Judge Shapiro who will create an armed revolution for the purpose of a court to maintain civilization by providing a forum for two parties to present their case. When that is denied, then the ONLY recourse is to an armed revolution. Civilization is about rules that we all follow. Tyranny is when there are no rules and those in power just do as they like which is what he has ruled in this case.
Edward Gibbon wrote of Emperor Commodus (177-192AD) with who historian agree began the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, that his abuse of the legal system denied any ability to obtain Due Process of Law. In the end, the ONLY recourse was a revolution because they simply assassinated him which h then cast the Roman Empire into civil war.
“distinction of every kind soon became criminal. The possession of wealth stimulated the diligence of the informers; rigid virtue implied a tacit censure of the irregularities of Commodus; important services implied a dangerous superiority of merit; and the friendship of the father always insured the aversion of the son. Suspicion was equivalent to proof; trial to condemnation. The execution of a considerable senator was attended with the death of all who might lament or revenge his fate; and when Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse”
(Book 1, Chapter 4).
That day is coming. This tyranny will not be accepted and the tyrants who think they can simply do whatever they like will discover that history is not on their side.
A man pawns himself off as a baby Kangaroo’s mother. Politicians have LEARNED that they too can pretend that they are your parent and are solely interested in taking care of you when their objective is really raw power.
Government presents itself as if it truly cares about “We the People” when behind closed doors it has nothing but contempt for the people, who they view as easily manipulated and too stupid to know what is best for them.
Everything they do is couched as pretending to protect society when they have no respect for the people or our liberty.
Fauci even said he does not concern himself with the loss of our liberty. Yet, these same people will send us off to war pretending it is to preserve our way of life.
Not only has Snowden exposed that they have collected a dossier on every single person just in case they need to look at your life, but they spy on everything we do, say, or even think. Our government is following the very same path as the most notorious Communist Secret Police in Germany — the Stazi. They are collecting data on everyone. As Amnesty International reported, the Stasi’s massive archive held files on millions.
Once more, we have the government telling us to report family members to the government.
There have been various and increasing ¹reports all day that a Biden-authorized U.S. drone strike targeting ISIS-K, in retaliation for their Kabul terrorist attack, not only killed Islamic terrorists, but also killed allies, innocent civilians and children.
[NOTE: I hate to keep harping on this, but it is important context. Remember CNN represents the official position of the State Dept. If CNN reports it, that is Team #1 (Dos/CIA), positioning a narrative to put Team #2 (White House and Pentagon) in a compromising position.]
New York Post – Multiple Afghan civilians, including relatives and children, were reportedly killed in Sunday’s US airstrike near the Kabul airport.
US officials said the drone strike wiped out a vehicle carrying multiple suicide bombers that posed an “imminent ISIS-K threat” to the city’s airport.
The exact amount of casualties was not immediately clear, but a relative of those killed told CNN that nine of his family members died in the drone strike. Six children, ranging in age from 2 to 10, and three adults were among the dead, the relative told the news outlet. (read more)
[Original CNN report HERE] – As the media start to pick up the story, dig and verify the reports of innocents as collateral damage, unbelievably U.S. Central Command (Centcom) releases a public statement seemingly admitting to the issue.
The media reports must be accurate because CentCom would never release a bulletin like that if the claim wasn’t valid. The Pentagon appears to be positioning to say that the vehicle was full of material that made the targeted explosion much worse…. yikes.
Bad situation…
♦ TEAM One – The Department of State is aligned with the CIA. Their media PR firms are CNN, CNNi and the Washington Post. Their ideology is favorable to the United Nations. Their internal corruption is generally driven by relationship with foreign actors. References: Hillary Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, John McCain, Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Cass Sunstein, Brookings Institute, Lawfare, China-centric, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Council on Foreign Relations.
♦ TEAM Two – The White House is aligned with the Pentagon (DoD) and National Security Council (NSC). Their media PR firms are domestic in nature. New York Times, Politico, etc. Their internal corruption is generally driven by domestic influence. References: Barack Obama, George Bush, Wall St, Big Banks, Multinational Corporations, Defense Contractors, FBI (state police), Judicial Branch, and community activists writ large.
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