{"id":1263481,"date":"2022-02-01T22:37:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1263481"},"modified":"2022-02-01T22:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:37:44","slug":"leaked-memo-reveals-biden-administrations-last-minute-scramble-on-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leaked-memo-reveals-biden-administrations-last-minute-scramble-on-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Memo Reveals Biden Administration\u2019s Last Minute Scramble On Afghanistan Withdrawal"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fleaked-memo-reveals-biden-administrations-last-minute-scramble-on-afghanistan-withdrawal%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=1263481&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--><p>Newly leaked notes made during a White House Situation Room meeting as Taliban fighters gathered outside of Kabul, Afghanistan highlight the Biden administration\u2019s lack of preparedness to deal with the ensuing evacuations.<\/p>\n<p>The document, obtained and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21194920-afghanistan-memo?responsive=1&amp;title=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published<\/a> in full by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/leaked-document-reveals-bidens-afghan-failures-c27d790c-3a50-4734-8543-7db710898bb2.html\">Axios<\/a> on Tuesday evening, comes from the National Security Council\u2019s (NSC) Deputies Small Group meeting. The meeting took place inside the White House Situation Room on August 14, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The obtained memo was the meeting\u2019s \u201csummary of conclusions\u201d and details how officials were still scrambling to work out simple details for a mass evacuation in Afghanistan. In one note, the memo reveals officials had only then come to the agreement to contact locally employed staff to gauge interest levels \u201cin relocation to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7364119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7364119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content \/ TOPSHOT \u2013 Wounded women arrive at a hospital for treatment after two blasts, which killed at least five and wounded a dozen, outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR \/ AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The notes also reveal that officials hadn\u2019t yet sorted out exactly what countries would be transit points for those needing to leave Afghanistan. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/18\/declassified-watchdog-report-joe-biden-warned-afghanistan-air-force-collapse\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Docs Reveal Biden Admin Was Warned About Rapid Afghan Air Force Collapse)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cState [Department] and DOD [Department of Defense] will begin planning transit processing for evacuees after departure from Kabul,\u201d the document reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NSC staff will chair a small group discussion to explore ways to engage Canada and other third countries, such as North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, to host Afghan allies at risk \u2026 who have either not been vetted or received limited vetting,\u201d another portion of the memo reads.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting took place from 3:30-4:30 p.m., according to the notes. By this time, Taliban fighters had reached the outskirts of Kabul, according to a timeline of events put <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/16\/taliban-timeline\/\">together<\/a> by The Washington Post. The very next day, Taliban fighters entered the city, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-fighters-enter-kabul-afghan-president-ashraf-ghani-flees\/\">declaring<\/a> it the \u201cIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the action points put together during that meeting were labeled \u201cImmediately,\u201d indicating officials knew by that point that time was of the essence. While President Joe Biden\u2019s administration did map out some plans prior to the fall of Kabul, the document reveals that many important points were left until it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/joe-biden-afghanistan-taliban-white-house\/\">Biden<\/a> administration has been widely criticized for what\u2019s viewed as a chaotic end to the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan. Polls in the aftermath of the withdrawal indicated tanking numbers for the president, with a number of his fellow Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/poll-42-percent-democrats-blame-biden-evacuation-afghanistan\/\">blaming<\/a> him for the disastrous execution.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/white-house-messaging-afghanistan-rapid-makeover\/\">White House<\/a> has said that no one expected Kabul to fall as quickly as it did. At the same time, the president has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/31\/joe-biden-speech-afghan-army-withdrawal-afghanistan-taliban\/\">claimed<\/a> his administration was \u201cready\u201d for the&nbsp;Afghan government to fall almost immediately to the Taliban as the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, outside advisers were warning of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/biden-responsibility-afghanistan-debacle-blames-trump\/\">Taliban\u2019s<\/a> swift advance through the country far before the August 14 meeting, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7364121\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7364121\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7364121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234843906.jpg\" alt=\"HAMID KARZAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 22: This handout image shows A Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary unit (MEU) passes out water to evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 22. U.S. service members are assisting the Department of State with a Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) in Afghanistan. (Photo by Sgt. Isaiah Campbell \/ U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234843906.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234843906-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234843906-620x413.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234843906-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1234843906-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7364121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HAMID KARZAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AFGHANISTAN \u2013 AUGUST 22: This handout image shows A Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary unit (MEU) passes out water to evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 22. U.S. service members are assisting the Department of State with a Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) in Afghanistan. (Photo by Sgt. Isaiah Campbell \/ U.S. Marine Corps via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOn the 13th of July, we offered to work with them to help evacuate our partners,\u201d former CIA officer&nbsp;Matt Zeller, who worked with officials in February about ensuring protection for Afghans who had helped America, told Axios. \u201cWe all saw this disaster coming before the inevitable occurred. They didn\u2019t get back to us until Aug 15, the day Kabul fell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey treated us like we were Chicken Little. They didn\u2019t believe the sky was falling,\u201d he added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/20\/joe-biden-remarks-afghanistan-misleading-differ-reality-kabul\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Impossible To Fact Check \u2018In Real Time\u2019: Misleading Biden Presser Diverges From Reality On The Ground)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NSC declined to comment \u201con leaked internal documents\u201d while appearing to tout its Operation Allies Refuge that launched earlier that summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we\u2019re not going to comment on leaked internal documents, cherry-picked notes from one meeting do not reflect the months of work that were already underway,\u201d NSC spokesperson Emily Horne said, according to Axios. \u201cEarlier that summer, we launched Operation Allies Refuge and had worked with Congress to pass legislation that gave us greater flexibility to quickly relocate Afghan partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was because of this type of planning and other efforts that we were able to facilitate the evacuation of more than 120,000 Americans, legal permanent residents, vulnerable Afghans and other partners,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly leaked notes made during a White House Situation Room meeting as Taliban fighters gathered outside of Kabul, Afghanistan highlight the Biden administration\u2019s lack of preparedness to deal with the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}