{"id":651358,"date":"2021-08-16T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=651358"},"modified":"2021-08-16T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T18:23:03","slug":"obama-cia-director-biden-must-take-responsibility-for-afghanistan-debacle-admit-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-cia-director-biden-must-take-responsibility-for-afghanistan-debacle-admit-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama CIA Director: Biden Must Take \u2018Responsibility\u2019 For Afghanistan Debacle, \u2018Admit Mistakes\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fobama-cia-director-biden-must-take-responsibility-for-afghanistan-debacle-admit-mistakes%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=651358&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\/08\/GettyImages-956668214.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama\u2019s CIA director, Leon Panetta told CNN Monday that President Joe Biden must take \u201cresponsibility\u201d for the disaster that has unfolded in Kabul, Afghanistan over the last 36 hours, and compared the Biden administration\u2019s lack of foresight to that of John F. Kennedy\u2019s failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Panetta, who presided over some strategic operations in Afghanistan during Obama\u2019s term suggested that the Biden administration had suffered from a significant intelligence failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">John Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs,\u201d he told CNN. \u201cIt unfolded quickly and the president thought that everything would be fine and that was not the case.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He then suggested that Biden follow in Kennedy\u2019s footsteps when handling the fallout from the Taliban takeover of Kabul and take responsibility for what happened Sunday, admitting that there were intelligence failures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Kennedy took responsibility for what took place,\u201d Panetta said. \u201cI strongly recommend to President Biden that he take responsibility\u2026admit the mistakes that were made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden is scheduled to address the nation at 3:45 pm EST \u2014 a change from the administration\u2019s statements Sunday evening, assuring Americans that the president would speak sometime before Wednesday when he was scheduled to return from a vacation at Camp David. Sunday night, the White House had called a lid on communication for Monday, noting, at the time, that Biden would not have any press availability.<\/p>\n<p>That changed Monday morning. Biden\u2019s team announced around 10 am EST that the president would return early to the White House from Camp David and deliver remarks on the Afghan pullout. The White House address will narrowly edge out speeches from other world leaders on the subject; both Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel and France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron have addresses to their respective nations planned for Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Panetta is not the first Obama administration official to have harsh words for Biden\u2019s national security team. Brett Bruen, the director of global engagement for the Obama White House, issued a blistering op-ed in USA Today Monday morning, demanding that Biden \u201cshake up\u201d his national security team and fire individuals in his administration who earned their jobs through political allies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cPresident Biden needs to fire his national security adviser and several other senior leaders who oversaw the botched execution of our withdrawal from Afghanistan.&nbsp;He has to restructure how and with whom he is making major foreign policy decisions, allowing for more input from career experts,\u201d Bruen wrote. \u201cThere should be absolutely no more donors appointed to represent us abroad.&nbsp; The stakes are just too high.&nbsp;Finally, there is an urgency to repairing the extensive damage done to our reputation and credibility on the world stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bruen, like many critics, acknowledged that \u201cwe were always going to pull out\u201d of Afghanistan, but faulted Biden and national security advisor Jake Sullivan for ramping up the timeline for withdrawal without considering the implications of speeding along the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, it seems [Sullivan] allowed the president\u2019s push for an end to our involvement in the country ahead of Sept.&nbsp;11&nbsp;to drive the American timeline,\u201d Bruen said. \u201cThat was a catastrophic error.&nbsp;Our people were unprepared. We failed to get them out of harm\u2019s way.&nbsp;The Afghan government and military clearly were not ready either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama\u2019s CIA director, Leon Panetta told CNN Monday that President Joe Biden must take \u201cresponsibility\u201d for the disaster that has unfolded in Kabul, Afghanistan over the last &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651358","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\/651358","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=651358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651358\/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=651358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}