{"id":704023,"date":"2021-08-31T17:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=704023"},"modified":"2021-08-31T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:21:32","slug":"state-department-decision-to-abolish-crisis-response-bureau-mucked-up-afghanistan-exit-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-decision-to-abolish-crisis-response-bureau-mucked-up-afghanistan-exit-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Decision to Abolish Crisis Response Bureau \u2018Mucked Up\u2019 Afghanistan Exit, Report Says"},"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\">28<\/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-decision-to-abolish-crisis-response-bureau-mucked-up-afghanistan-exit-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=704023&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 readability=\"29.913043478261\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Emergency evacuations operations coordinator resigned over decision<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234976754_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234976754_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234976754_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s4.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234976754_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tTaliban fighters atop a Humvee vehicle take part in a rally in Kabul on August 31, 2021 as they celebrate after the U.S. pulled all its troops out of the country. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 31, 2021 5:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"80.09243697479\">\n<p>The State Department&#8217;s decision to abolish a crisis response bureau, as <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\">first reported<\/a> by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, &#8220;mucked up America&#8217;s exit from Afghanistan&#8221; and prompted the resignation of the department&#8217;s top physician, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2021\/08\/how-turf-wars-mucked-up-americas-exit-from-afghanistan?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=onsite-share&amp;utm_brand=vanity-fair&amp;utm_social-type=earned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report<\/a>&nbsp;in <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported earlier this month that the State Department moved in June to dissolve the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR), a Trump-era project that was meant to coordinate the evacuation of Americans from hotspots overseas. The decision was made just months before the Biden administration pulled U.S. troops out of Afghanistan and sparked a chaotic rescue effort that sources inside and outside of the State Department said could have been bolstered by the CCR.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s decision to scuttle the CCR bureau prompted the resignation of William Walters, the State Department&#8217;s top physician and coordinator of emergency evacuation operations, according to <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am resigning,&#8221; Walters reportedly told Secretary of State Antony Blinken in June, saying that Blinken&#8217;s &#8220;decision not to move forward with the establishment of the CCR bureau, which Walters had been slated to lead, was a mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given simmering tensions in Afghanistan and elsewhere, Walters said, he believed that throwing out plans for the new unit \u2026 would impact State&#8217;s ability to respond to threats to U.S. diplomats and citizens abroad,&#8221; <em>Vanity Fair <\/em>wrote.<\/p>\n<p>These concerns came to fruition months later, as the State Department scrambled to evacuate Americans stranded in Taliban-controlled Kabul, where many Americans remain trapped after the Biden administration&#8217;s decision to not keep troops in the country past Aug. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken originally expressed support for the CCR bureau before delegating responsibility for it to his deputy, Brian McKeon, according to <em>Vanity Fair<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> obtained a memo signed by McKeon authorizing the CCR bureau&#8217;s termination.<\/p>\n<p>While the &#8220;fact checking&#8221; website <em>PolitiFact<\/em> attempted to downplay and undercut the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>\u2019s reporting, the <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> article provides confirmation about the CCR bureau&#8217;s fate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Emergency evacuations operations coordinator resigned over decision  Taliban fighters atop a Humvee vehicle take part in a rally in Kabul on August 31, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-704023","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\/704023","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704023\/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=704023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}