{"id":853773,"date":"2021-10-06T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=853773"},"modified":"2021-10-06T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T22:13:34","slug":"psaki-dodges-if-white-house-regrets-decision-to-abandon-bagram-after-reports-show-taliban-released-suicide-bomber-from-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-if-white-house-regrets-decision-to-abandon-bagram-after-reports-show-taliban-released-suicide-bomber-from-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Dodges If White House Regrets Decision To Abandon Bagram After Reports Show Taliban Released Suicide Bomber From Base"},"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%2Fpsaki-dodges-if-white-house-regrets-decision-to-abandon-bagram-after-reports-show-taliban-released-suicide-bomber-from-base%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=853773&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--><p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged questioning on Wednesday as to whether the U.S. should have done more to keep control of Bagram Air Base after reports the Taliban released the suicide bomber who would go on to kill over a dozen U.S. service members and scores of Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>The jihadist, Abdul Rehman, was released from Bagram on Aug. 15, days before killing 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghan civilians in Kabul, FirstPost, an English-language news site based in India, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/kabul-airport-suicide-attacker-was-freed-by-taliban-after-four-years-in-cia-custody-for-new-delhi-terror-plot-9976961.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. He was released alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/27\/pentagon-taliban-isis-k-prisoners-bagram-kabul-attack-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">thousands of other prisoners<\/a> when the Taliban took control of the prison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I can\u2019t speak to the specific case, I\u2019d \u2026 leave it to the intelligence community to speak to that,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uNOuRt4f374&amp;ab_channel=TheWhiteHouse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> when asked about reports. \u201cI\u2019d remind you that, as it relates to Bagram, there was a decision made to close Bagram because it wasn\u2019t strategically in the interest of the United States and our national security to keep it open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the administration would have still chosen to close with the information they have now, Psaki again referred the reporter to the intelligence community.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7296881\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"34\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7296881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A US Air Force transport plane lands at the Bagram Air Base in Bagram on July 1, 2021. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/02\/us-withdraws-troops-afghanistan-bagram-air-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision to abandon Bagram<\/a> Air Base was met with criticism even before news broke of the suicide bomber\u2019s release, due to the chaos that unfolded as the U.S. scrambled to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from Hamid Karzai International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did this get so mismanaged?\u201d Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/adam-kinzinger-shut-down-bagram-air-force-base\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asked<\/a> in August. \u201cBagram was a secure military installation with a gigantic airfield. Can you imagine if we still had that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rehman was sent to Bagram after his arrest in India for his involvement in an Islamic State plot to stage suicide bombings in New Delhi and other cities in the region, FirstPost reported. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/30\/psaki-biden-administration-progress-covid-not-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: China Reportedly Mulls Takeover Of Bagram Air Base After Hasty US Withdrawal)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s disorganized retreat from Afghanistan has led to hundreds of highly-competent and highly-committed terrorists being set free to rejoin the Islamic State, al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups,\u201d one officer who worked on Rehman\u2019s case told FirstPost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally a decade\u2019s work on counter-terrorism has been undone by the US\u2019 failure to secure key prisoners in Bagram,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki dodged questioning on Wednesday as to whether the U.S. should have done more to keep control of Bagram Air Base after reports the Taliban &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853773","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\/853773","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=853773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853773\/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=853773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}