{"id":659056,"date":"2021-08-18T17:50:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=659056"},"modified":"2021-08-18T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:50:35","slug":"biden-admin-was-reportedly-set-to-halt-trump-era-program-to-protect-evacuate-threatened-us-citizens-as-taliban-rose-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-was-reportedly-set-to-halt-trump-era-program-to-protect-evacuate-threatened-us-citizens-as-taliban-rose-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Was Reportedly Set To Halt Trump-Era Program To Protect, Evacuate Threatened US Citizens As Taliban Rose To Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-was-reportedly-set-to-halt-trump-era-program-to-protect-evacuate-threatened-us-citizens-as-taliban-rose-to-power%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=659056&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-1334530935-scaled-e1629320572691.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"44.588394062078\">\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s State Department reportedly moved in June to abolish a crisis response office developed in order to help Americans evacuate dangerous foreign countries, as the Taliban was beginning to capture territory in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>An internal memo obtained by the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-state-dept-moved-to-abolish-crisis-response-bureau-months-before-taliban-takeover-of-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Beacon<\/a> and reported Wednesday announced the \u201cdiscontinuation of the establishment, and termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR).\u201d A State Department spokesman told the Beacon the Biden administration did not abolish any program, as it \u201cwas never established in the first place.\u201d The State Department\u2019s Foreign Affairs Manual reportedly listed the CCR as operative as recently as January, though a source told the Beacon the State Department paused CCR\u2019s funding prior to a review of the bureau.<\/p>\n<p>The CCR was created during former President Donald Trump\u2019s administration in late 2020 and aimed to provide \u201caviation, logistics, and medical support capabilities for the Department\u2019s operational bureaus, thereby enhancing the secretary\u2019s ability to protect American citizens overseas in connection with overseas evacuations in the aftermath of a natural or man-made disaster,\u201d according to the Beacon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.6158940397351\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BIG BREAKING: Biden State Dept Abolished Trump-Era Crisis Response Bureau Just Months Before the Taliban Took Afghanistan \u2014 The agency was meant to coordinate logistics in the case of an overseas emergency, like that unfolding in Kabul <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L5mZd6IsGC\">https:\/\/t.co\/L5mZd6IsGC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Kredo (@Kredo0) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kredo0\/status\/1428084611897249796?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The CCR halt reportedly occurred just months before the Taliban started making large territorial gains in the country as the U.S. and NATO allies withdrew, ultimately ending in the toppling of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/15\/taliban-islamic-emirate-of-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kabul<\/a> and the U.S.-created Afghan government over the weekend.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/biden-milley-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Admin Had Zero Indication That Afghanistan Could Fall So Quickly, Gen. Milley Claims)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The State Department announced Wednesday that it \u201ccannot ensure\u201d American citizens stuck in Afghanistan \u201csafe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport,\u201d currently surrounded by Taliban militants, Defense One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/policy\/2021\/08\/2000-evacuated-kabul-24-hour-span-pentagon-says\/184637\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Estimates of the number of U.S. citizens now trapped in Afghanistan vary, but have ranged as high as 15,000.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s State Department reportedly moved in June to abolish a crisis response office developed in order to help Americans evacuate dangerous foreign countries, as the Taliban &#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-659056","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\/659056","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=659056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659056\/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=659056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}