{"id":925439,"date":"2021-10-26T17:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=925439"},"modified":"2021-10-26T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T21:14:22","slug":"email-shows-biden-ordered-afghanistan-evacuation-flights-be-filled-with-unvetted-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/email-shows-biden-ordered-afghanistan-evacuation-flights-be-filled-with-unvetted-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Shows Biden Ordered Afghanistan Evacuation Flights Be Filled With Unvetted Refugees"},"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\">24<\/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%2Femail-shows-biden-ordered-afghanistan-evacuation-flights-be-filled-with-unvetted-refugees%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=925439&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\/2021-08-26T113455Z_1_LYNXMPEH7P0GA_RTROPTP_4_APPS-AFGHANISTAN-scaled-e1630005689951.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>During America&#8217;s chaotic exit from Afghanistan earlier this year, the Biden administration issued a directive that evacuation flights be filled to &#8220;excess&#8221; with refugees who had not been properly vetted before arriving in America, according to an internal administration communication disclosed on Tuesday by Sen. Josh Hawley (R., Mo.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Total inflow to the U.S. must exceed the number of seats available. Err on the side of excess,&#8221; reads an Aug. 16 email to U.S. officials involved in the exit from Afghanistan. &#8220;This guidance provides clear discretion and direction to fill seats and to provide special consideration for women and children when we have seats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hawley, who says he obtained the email through a U.S. official who was outraged by the Biden administration&#8217;s failure to vet Afghan refugees flown into America, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1453054643420995584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published<\/a> the email Tuesday afternoon on Twitter. Hawley maintains that Afghan evacuees were not throughly screened with intensive interviews before they arrived in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This email was shared [with] me by an American official present in Afghanistan during the evacuation who was shocked by administration&#8217;s failure to vet Afghans before they were evacuated,&#8221; Hawley wrote. &#8220;Email details orders from Joe Biden to fill up the planes\u2014even without vetting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The email, which has the subject line &#8220;presidential directive,&#8221; provides some of the firmest proof to date that the Biden administration decided to forgo proper vetting procedures in its rush to evacuate scores of Afghans following the Taliban&#8217;s takeover just weeks after the U.S. military retreated from the country.<\/p>\n<p>Hawley pressed the issues on Tuesday during a Senate hearing with Colin Kahl, the Pentagon&#8217;s undersecretary for defense policy and the administration official <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/republicans-blame-pentagon-planner-colin-kahl-for-bungled-afghanistan-strategy\/\">largely responsible<\/a> for overseeing the Biden administration&#8217;s botched evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now know that we&#8217;ve got major problems of vetting of the people who were brought to this country, who were evacuated and brought to this country,&#8221;&nbsp;Hawley said.&nbsp;&#8220;So, you testified in September that those evacuated, about 6,000 American citizens, you testified in September that the [Special Immigrant Visas] were about 1,200 to 1,300, that leaves about 116,700 people, based on the 124,000 neo-number that you&#8217;ve been offering, 116,700 people who were not citizens, who were not SIVs, and we just don&#8217;t know much about who were those people?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kahl, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HJqaSCiqQIk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">response<\/a> to Hawley&#8217;s questions, said that about 84 percent of the Afghans evacuated by the Biden administration were deemed to be at risk under Taliban rule. &#8220;It&#8217;s a mishmash of a lot of different categories,&#8221; Kahl said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During America&#8217;s chaotic exit from Afghanistan earlier this year, the Biden administration issued a directive that evacuation flights be filled to &#8220;excess&#8221; with refugees who had not been properly vetted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-925439","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\/925439","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=925439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925439\/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=925439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}