{"id":663069,"date":"2021-08-19T18:36:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=663069"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:36:49","slug":"breaking-u-s-officials-in-afghanistan-warned-biden-admin-in-july-about-dire-conditions-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-u-s-officials-in-afghanistan-warned-biden-admin-in-july-about-dire-conditions-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: U.S. Officials In Afghanistan Warned Biden Admin In July About Dire Conditions, Report Says"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fbreaking-u-s-officials-in-afghanistan-warned-biden-admin-in-july-about-dire-conditions-report-says%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=663069&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\/BR-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration was reportedly warned weeks ago by U.S. officials in Afghanistan that the nation was at risk of collapsing as the Taliban made rapid territorial gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cable, sent via the State Department\u2019s confidential dissent channel, warned of rapid territorial gains by the Taliban and the subsequent collapse of Afghan security forces, and offered recommendations on ways to mitigate the crisis and speed up an evacuation,\u201d The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/confidential-state-department-cable-in-july-warned-of-afghanistans-collapse-11629406993\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe cable, dated July 13, also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report said that 23 U.S. Embassy staffers, all of whom are U.S. citizens, signed the cable and that there \u201cwas a rush to deliver it.\u201d The report said that Secretary of State Antony Blinken received the cable and read it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe classified cable represents the clearest evidence yet that the administration had been warned by its own officials on the ground that the Taliban\u2019s advance was imminent and Afghanistan\u2019s military may be unable to stop it,\u201d the report added. \u201cThe existence of the confidential State Department cable adds to an expanding debate involving the White House, Pentagon and U.S. intelligence services over what U.S. officials understood about assessments of Afghanistan\u2019s stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News later confirmed The Wall Street Journal\u2019s reporting on the cable.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4360902255639\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The confidential cable constitutes the clearest proof the Biden administration had been warned by its officials the Afghan military may not be able to hold off Taliban takeover \u2013 casting questions on POTUS claim<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JacquiHeinrich\/status\/1428476798875181058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden claimed during an interview that aired Wednesday morning on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos that none of his top military advisers warned him against withdrawing all troops from the nation:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24\">\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: But your top military advisors warned against withdrawing on this timeline. They wanted you to keep about 2,500 troops.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: No, they didn\u2019t. It was split. Tha\u2013 that wasn\u2019t true. That wasn\u2019t true.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: They didn\u2019t tell you that they wanted troops to stay?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: No. Not at \u2014 not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a timeframe all troops. They didn\u2019t argue against that.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>STEPHANOPOULOS: So no one told \u2014 your military advisors did not tell you, \u201cNo, we should just keep 2,500 troops. It\u2019s been a stable situation for the last several years. We can do that. We can continue to do that\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>BIDEN: No. No one said that to me that I can recall.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6792452830189\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNo, no one said that to me that I can recall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So Biden may have just forgotten that people told him this was going to be a disaster?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i1Fokv5gHs\">pic.twitter.com\/i1Fokv5gHs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathan Brand (@NathanBrandWA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NathanBrandWA\/status\/1428335526071910409?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/biden-wanted-to-leave-afghanistan-he-knew-the-risks-11629214842\">reported<\/a>, however, that Biden\u2019s \u201ctop generals, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, urged Mr. Biden to keep a force of about 2,500 troops, the size he inherited, while seeking a peace agreement between warring Afghan factions, to help maintain stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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 <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration was reportedly warned weeks ago by U.S. officials in Afghanistan that the nation was at risk of collapsing as the Taliban made rapid territorial gains.\u201cThe &#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-663069","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\/663069","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=663069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663069\/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=663069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}