Pompeo Slams Biden State Department for Dissolving Crisis Response Bureau as Taliban Advanced

By Jack Crowe August 21, 2021 

During his time as secretary of state, Mike Pompeo set about building a unit within the department tasked with rapidly evacuating Americans who came into harm’s way while overseas. Intent on ensuring that there would never be a repeat of the disaster that took place at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi in 2012, Pompeo and his deputies developed the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR) “from scratch,” Pompeo told National Review in an interview.

“The administration of Donald Trump was serious about making sure we had all the capabilities to respond to the needs of American citizens all around the world in a timely fashion with adequate medical response and adequate ability to get them home to their families,” Pompeo said.

“We had seen the failure of the Obama administration in Benghazi and Libya in exactly this regard, and we were determined to make sure those failures were never repeated,” he continued. “We had built out a set of capabilities and institutions to deliver on that.”

But rather than building on the Trump administration’s processes, the Biden administration “chose a different path,” Pompeo said.................To Read More.........

WH Comms Director Makes It Clear They're Prepared to Leave People Behind in Kabul

By Nick Arama Aug 20, 2021

One of the questions that have been hanging out there in the wind is: what happens if we get to Aug. 31 and we still haven’t gotten out all the Americans and allies that need to get out? What does the Biden team intend to do?  It surely sounds like they intend to leave people there. CNN’s Brianna Keilar asks her why aren’t they getting out the 5000-9000 a day that they previously estimated was their capacity to get out? Instead, they’ve only, allegedly, gotten out 9000 since Kabul fell, in six days.............To Read More

Pentagon contradicts Biden MINUTES after his speech by saying officials are aware of reports Americans have been beaten by the Taliban on the way to Kabul airport and Al Qaeda IS still present in Afghanistan - Daily Mail (UK), by Rob Crilly 8/20/2021 - Minutes after President Biden on Friday said the mission to destroy Al Qaeda in Afghanistan was a success and that he knew of no circumstances where Americans had been unable to reach Kabul airport, he was flatly contradicted by the Pentagon. Al Qaeda remains present in Afghanistan, said Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby during a briefing, and yes, he was aware of reports of Americans being beaten by the Taliban as they tried to reach safety. The contradiction will raise further doubt about whether Biden is in control of the White House messaging operation, let alone the chaotic effort to bring Americans home...........

 

 Biden Admin Has No Plan to Keep Cash Out of Taliban's Hands, GOP Lawmakers Say - Washington Free Beacon, by Adam Kredo  8/20/2021 - As the Biden administration scrambles to evacuate American personnel from Afghanistan, it is overlooking the Taliban's plans to seize some $10 billion in assets held by Afghanistan's central bank, according to congressional foreign policy leaders.Somewhere between $18 and $20 million in cash sits in the Afghan central bank's vaults and is likely to fall into the Taliban's hands unless the United States attempts to intercept the funds and fly them out of the country a scenario that sources say is unlikely as the Biden administration struggles to pull Americans out of Taliban-controlled Kabul...........

 

LEAK: British Diplomatic Memo Reveals Biden Assured G-7 Allies in June US Would Ensure Kabul's Stability  - Gateway Pundit, by Christina Laila 8/20/2021 - A British diplomatic memo leaked to Bloomberg News reveals Joe Biden promised G-7 allies in June at the summit in Cornwall, England that critical US enablers would remain in place to keep Kabul stable.British officials took Biden's word and assumed they would keep the embassy safely functioning.They were wrong.(Tweet) The Taliban quickly took over Kabul leaving tens of thousands of Americans trapped behind enemy lines.The UK, France and Germany sent special forces to rescue their citizens trapped outside of Kabul airport because of Joe Biden's betrayal and incompetence........

EXC: Joe Biden's State Dept Halted a Trump-Era Crisis Response Plan Aimed at Avoiding Benghazi-Style Evacuations Just MONTHS Before Taliban Takeover.

August 18, 2021 Raheem J. Kassam

 

Joe Biden’s State Department moved to cancel a critical State Department program aimed at providing swift and safe evacuations of Americans out of crisis zones just months prior to the fall of Kabul, The National Pulse can exclusively reveal.

The “Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau” – which was designed to handle medical, diplomatic, and logistical support concerning Americans overseas was paused by Antony Blinken’s State Department earlier this year. Notification was officially signed just months before the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. 

“SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED,” an official State Department document from the Biden State Department begins, before outlining the following move the quash the Trump-era funding for the new bureau.

The document is from the desk of Deputy Secretary of State Brian P. McKeon, confirmed in March by the United States Senate........To Read More.....