{"id":1961702,"date":"2023-06-30T16:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T20:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-finally-admits-in-heavily-redacted-report-that-biden-botched-the-afghanistan-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T16:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T20:40:07","slug":"state-department-finally-admits-in-heavily-redacted-report-that-biden-botched-the-afghanistan-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-finally-admits-in-heavily-redacted-report-that-biden-botched-the-afghanistan-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department acknowledges Biden&#8217;s mishandling of Afghanistan withdrawal in redacted report."},"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%2Fstate-department-finally-admits-in-heavily-redacted-report-that-biden-botched-the-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=1961702&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>State Department Report Reveals Biden&#8217;s Failure in Afghanistan<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s State Department, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reward-for-info-on-dnc-rnc-pipe-bomber-jumps-to-500000-as-investigation-nears-two-year-mark\/\" title=\"Reward For Info On DNC, RNC Pipe Bomber Jumps To 0,000 As Investigation Nears Two-Year Mark\">previously hesitated<\/a> to criticize the White House\u2019s Afghanistan withdrawal, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/State-AAR-AFG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-next-hunter-kamala-harriss-stepdaughter-cashes-in-on-biden-presidency\/\" title=\"The Next Hunter? Kamala Harris\u2019s Stepdaughter Cashes in on Biden Presidency\">damning report<\/a><\/a> on Friday afternoon detailing the Democrat\u2019s failure to properly terminate decades of U.S. presence in the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>For two years now, Biden repeatedly tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/08\/20\/biden-dodges-responsibility-for-afghanistan-crisis-again-in-another-short-sleepy-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ariz-rep-seeks-to-pause-immigration-for-10-years\/\" title=\"Ariz. Rep. seeks to pause immigration for 10 years\">dodge responsibility<\/a><\/a> for the hasty and harrowing troop removal that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and stranded thousands of Americans, U.S. allies, and their families.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s unclassified review, which is less than two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-finally-admits-in-heavily-redacted-report-that-biden-botched-the-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\" title=\"State Department acknowledges Biden's mishandling of Afghanistan withdrawal in redacted report.\">dozen pages long due<\/a> to redactions, sheepishly confirms that President Joe Biden\u2019s ultimate execution of the withdrawal \u201cposed significant challenges for the Department.\u201d The confession, publicly released more than a year after completion, comes mere hours before the July 4 holiday weekend begins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The recent evaluation also attempts to pin some of the disaster on Biden\u2019s predecessor. The former president, however, was not the one who pledged a \u201csafe and orderly\u201d departure, left thousands of Americans behind as the Taliban took over, and abandoned billions of dollars in military equipment for U.S. enemies to use.<\/p>\n<p>It was Biden who did all those things and more, including welcoming hundreds of Afghans on the Pentagon\u2019s watchlist into the U.S. without vetting while his own constituents awaited rescue.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When the crisis came to a head in 2021, the Biden administration did not accept responsibility for the rapid ruination of Afghanistan. The State Department, specifically, repeatedly claimed that \u201cwe inherited a deadline\u201d but \u201cdid not inherit a plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMore could and should have been done,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken eventually admitted in April.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The review ends with a paragraph of praise by the State Department for the State Department\u2019s handling of a crisis that many Americans say tainted their view of Biden during his first year in office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe end this After Action Review where we began, with praise and admiration for our colleagues throughout the Department. We have made a series of recommendations for ways in which we think the Department could better prepare for future complex crises, but in the final analysis, there is no substitute for the smart, hard-working, dedicated professionals that the Department could count upon in this crisis,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-one-in-six-biden-voters-would-have-changed-their-vote-if-they-had-known-about-scandals-suppressed-by-media\/\" title=\"Poll: One In Six Biden Voters Would Have Changed Their Vote If They Had Known About Scandals Suppressed By Media\">report states<\/a>. \u201cWe should be proud of what they and their partners in uniform accomplished during this evacuation and what they continue to do to help U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s State Department, previously reluctant to criticize the White House&#8217;s Afghanistan withdrawal, issued a scathing report on Friday. It highlights the Democrat&#8217;s failure to effectively end the long-standing U.S. presence in the Middle East. Despite two years of attempting to avoid accountability, Biden&#8217;s hasty and distressing troop removal is now under scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":1961703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1961702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961702","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1961702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1961703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1961702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1961702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1961702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}