{"id":706683,"date":"2021-09-01T14:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706683"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T18:20:57","slug":"biden-admin-abandons-government-sponsored-journalists-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-abandons-government-sponsored-journalists-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Abandons Government-Sponsored Journalists 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\">14<\/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-abandons-government-sponsored-journalists-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=706683&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=\"28.842519685039\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">U.S. Agency for Global Media official said situation for more than 100 journalists now a matter of &#8216;life and death&#8217;<\/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=\"552\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-736x552-1.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:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-e1627489898489.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-112x85.jpg 112w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-1400x1050.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-655x491.jpg 655w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/s2.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/1600px-Voice_of_America_headquarters_-_Stierch-800x600.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/>\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 September 1, 2021 2:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"75.979544277576\">\n<p>Amid its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration abandoned more than 100 government-sponsored journalists in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department promised to evacuate employees of Voice of America and Radio Azadi, which are overseen by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/31\/us-government-left-its-own-journalists-behind-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>. The government employees, however, were unable to board evacuation flights by the administration&#8217;s Aug. 31 deadline, when the last U.S. troops departed from Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport. The situation for the journalists, who face reprisals from the Taliban, is now a matter of &#8220;life and death,&#8221; according to an agency official.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would have expected that the United States government, which helped create the space for journalism and civil society in Afghanistan over the last 20 years, would have tried to do more over the last several weeks to assist journalists who made a decision that it was best for them to leave the country,&#8221; Jamie Fly, the president of Radio Liberty, which oversees Radio Azadi, told the <em>Post<\/em>. &#8220;But they consistently failed to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has faced mounting criticism for its withdrawal efforts, which have left between 100 and 200 Americans in the Taliban-controlled country. President Joe Biden said last month that U.S. troops would stay in Afghanistan until every American is evacuated\u2014a broken promise that has angered both Republican and Democratic lawmakers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/national-security-daily\/2021\/08\/31\/its-unforgivable-lawmakers-furious-us-citizens-stranded-in-afghanistan-494185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America&#8217;s last flight left Afghanistan, even though we still don&#8217;t know the total number of Americans trapped behind enemy lines\u2014it&#8217;s unforgivable,&#8221; Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.) told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Biden defended his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in a speech on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/biden-afghanistan-fail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> it was &#8220;the right decision, a wise decision, and the best decision for America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration U.S. Agency for Global Media official said situation for more than 100 journalists now a matter of &#8216;life and death&#8217;  Cole Carnick \u2022 September &#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-706683","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\/706683","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=706683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706683\/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=706683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}