{"id":1119154,"date":"2021-12-14T18:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119154"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:44:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:44:08","slug":"white-house-defends-americans-still-being-left-behind-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-americans-still-being-left-behind-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Defends Americans Still Being Left Behind in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-defends-americans-still-being-left-behind-in-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1119154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Biden-Leaves-Americans-Behind-in-Afghanistan-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House defended leaving over 400 Americans behind in Afghanistan, arguing Tuesday that government officials did not use tracking software to monitor them.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department acknowledged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/afghanistan-relocation-and-resettlement-update\">statement<\/a> released Monday that \u201cfewer than a dozen\u201d Americans were still trying to leave Afghanistan, nearly four months after the Taliban seized control of Kabul.&nbsp;The statement also revealed the Biden administration had left 490 Americans behind in Afghanistan \u2014 even while Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/08\/31\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-end-of-the-war-in-afghanistan\/\">claimed<\/a> at the time that only about 100-200 Americans remained when American troops left the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the Biden administration\u2019s record on the issue during the daily briefing, arguing that they \u201cdelivered on their word on\u201d the president\u2019s commitment to get Americans out of the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>When Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked why the administration did not have accurate numbers of Americans left behind, Psaki said it was because the government was not tracking Americans overseas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would just reiterate. The United States does not track or put a tracker on American citizens traveling overseas,\u201d she said, and added, \u201cThat would be quite a Fox News story, wouldn\u2019t it be, if we did that? We don\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said the State Department continued to offer a \u201crange of services\u201d to help Americans still in Afghanistan to evacuate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House defended leaving over 400 Americans behind in Afghanistan, arguing Tuesday that government officials did not use tracking software to monitor them. 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