{"id":680256,"date":"2021-08-24T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680256"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:20:35","slug":"exclusive-internal-numbers-show-white-house-poised-to-leave-several-thousand-americans-behind-enemy-lines-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-internal-numbers-show-white-house-poised-to-leave-several-thousand-americans-behind-enemy-lines-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Internal Numbers Show White House Poised To Leave Several Thousand Americans Behind Enemy Lines In Afghanistan"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fexclusive-internal-numbers-show-white-house-poised-to-leave-several-thousand-americans-behind-enemy-lines-in-afghanistan%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=680256&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-1234779298-scaled-e1629832341882.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Roughly 3,800 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since July 29, with an estimated 8,000 remaining in the country, an official with direct knowledge of the situation told the Daily Caller on Tuesday. The official told the Caller that it seems \u201cdoubtful we are going to bring in 8,000 more Americans\u201d between now and the Aug. 31 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/pentagon-wont-say-americans-evacuated-afghanistan\/\">number<\/a> has been masked by the White House and Pentagon in recent days, with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/pentagon-wont-say-americans-evacuated-afghanistan\/\">Pentagon press<\/a> secretary John Kirby saying Monday that \u201cseveral thousand\u201d Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan. Both Kirby and National Security advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/jake-sullivan-falsely-claims-trump-didnt-process-any-special-visas-afghan-allies-march-2020\/\">Jake Sullivan<\/a> declined to give a more specific number and the reasoning varied from non-answers to the \u201cfluid\u201d evacuation process going on in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d be reticent to get too more specific than that, but since the 14th, we believe we have been able to evacuate several thousand Americans,\u201d Kirby told reporter. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/23\/taliban-sentences-afghan-interpreter-brother-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Your Death Is Eminent\u2019: Taliban Reportedly Hands Down Death Sentence For Brother Of Afghan Translator)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The official said while there\u2019s been no clear direction on not reporting the numbers, it\u2019s become a quiet rule among officials to avoid giving out a more precise number, in part because it\u2019s \u201cembarrassingly low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In early February, the assessment was that 16,000 Americans may be in Afghanistan, according to the official. This number has since been tailored down to around 12,000, likely because officials have been contacting Americans in an effort to sort out who remains in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 24 hours, over 350 Americans departed Afghanistan, according to the official. The White House said early Tuesday that approximately 21,600 people were evacuated Kabul from August 23 at 3:00 am to August 24 at 3:00 am.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. has evacuated and helped evacuate around 58,700 people since August 14 and around 63,900 individuals since the end of July. The number of Americans leaving the country indicates that the vast majority of those leaving the country are not U.S. citizens \u2013 and that thousands more remain with under one week to go until the Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden is reportedly sticking to the Aug. 31 date, although multiple lawmakers from both sides of the aisle expressed concern that the U.S. can get all Americans out by the date.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki claimed in a statement Tuesday that the administration is \u201con pace to finish by August 31st,\u201d despite doubt from lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 3,800 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since July 29, with an estimated 8,000 remaining in the country, an official with direct knowledge of the situation told the Daily &#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-680256","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\/680256","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=680256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680256\/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=680256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}