{"id":710043,"date":"2021-09-02T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=710043"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:06:09","slug":"screwed-lied-to-state-dept-avoids-questions-about-trapped-passport-holders-congressional-offices-flooded-with-calls-from-abandoned-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/screwed-lied-to-state-dept-avoids-questions-about-trapped-passport-holders-congressional-offices-flooded-with-calls-from-abandoned-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Screwed,\u2019 \u2018Lied To\u2019: State Dept. Avoids Questions About Trapped Passport Holders, Congressional Offices Flooded With Calls From Abandoned Americans"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fscrewed-lied-to-state-dept-avoids-questions-about-trapped-passport-holders-congressional-offices-flooded-with-calls-from-abandoned-americans%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=710043&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-1234835032.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>State Department spokesman Ned Price desperately tried to steer away from questions about Americans, American passport holders, and Afghan allies, still trapped in Afghanistan, even as an Associated Press reporter pressed him on claims that Afghan allies, particularly, feel \u201cscrewed\u201d and \u201clied to\u201d after being promised help.<\/p>\n<p>AP reporter Matt Lee confronted Price over the number of people the administration says are still in Afghanistan, asking Prince whether the \u201c100-200\u201d number used by Biden officials represents just American passport holders and whether there are efforts being made to extract legal permanent residents (LPRs) and those with Special Immigration Visas (SIVs). Price refused to answer directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou must have some estimate of LPRs who are still there who want to get out, and if you don\u2019t, why not?\u201d Lee asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the past couple days \u2013 and, in fact, overnight \u2013 we have been in touch with everyone in that remaining 100 to 200, and we do have a little bit more fidelity on that group that we\u2019ve been able to garner over the past couple days,\u201d Price answered, avoiding the issue of LPRs and SIVs. \u201cWe have said that the number is likely closer to 100. Everything we have seen over the course of the past 48 to 72 hours indicates that is, in fact, the case. The number is likely closer to 100, perhaps considerably closer to 100.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m asking about green card holders,\u201d Lee fired back.\u201dWas there a decision made at some point to forget about those people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause a lot of them feel like they frankly got screwed here and that they were lied to because they had been told by people on the task force\u2026that we know where you are, we\u2019re not going to let you \u2013 we\u2019re not going to strand you, don\u2019t worry, stay tight \u2013 hold tight. And now what do they do? I mean, are you in touch also with the green card holders?\u201d he pressed.<\/p>\n<p>Price again refused to answer, relying instead on the Biden administration line that Americans, permanent residents, and SIVs must \u201cchoose\u201d to leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been consistent in that messaging that we will do during the course of the evacuation everything in our power, and space permitting, to bring them to safety on a U.S. military airplane,\u201d Price said, without addressing how many non-Americans are still awaiting evacuation. \u201cNow, of course, our commitment has not expired; that commitment endures. And now we remain committed to bringing them out of Afghanistan if they should choose to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family that I\u2019m referring to\u2026 I mean, they were told,\u201d Lee fired back. \u201cYou guys do know. It defies logic to think that you guys don\u2019t have even a rough estimate of the number of LPRs who are out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/afghanistan-congress-reports-messages-gunfire-beatings\">Washington Examiner noted Thursday<\/a> that Congressional offices are being flooded with calls from individuals trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, some harrowing \u2014 one where what appeared to be gunfire could be heard in the background \u2014 begging for assistance that isn\u2019t coming from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">C<\/span>ongressional staff and members frantically working to help U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, and family members escape from Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country have received harrowing reports of the chaotic situation in the final days before and after the military\u2019s withdrawal,\u201d the Examiner said. \u201cFrom being on the phone with individuals dodging gunfire to messages describing Taliban beating U.S. citizens, lives are on the line as an ever-changing security landscape hamstrings staff members working long hours to assist those stranded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The situation is so difficult that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/crenshaw-blasts-biden-blinken-americans-behind-enemy-lines-all-they-have-to-do-is-make-a-few-phone-calls\">Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) took to Twitter<\/a> to beg the Biden administration to make the \u201cphone calls\u201d necessary to help Crenshaw\u2019s office get U.S. citizens and allies out of Kabul \u2014 specifically, begging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to \u201chelp get clearance\u201d for flights that need to land in other countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica: right now there is a private effort to get a plane of US citizens and allies out of Afghanistan. They need @SecBlinken to help get clearance to land in a nearby country. Biden\u2019s State Department is refusing to actively assist. Their response: \u2018just tell them to ask,&#8217;\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department spokesman Ned Price desperately tried to steer away from questions about Americans, American passport holders, and Afghan allies, still trapped in Afghanistan, even as an Associated Press reporter &#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-710043","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\/710043","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=710043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710043\/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=710043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}