The State Department recently issued its series of excuses for the botched Afghanistan retreat during which it blamed it in part on remote work during COVID-19 in the form of a report. The full report however can’t be seen lest our enemies discover that we’re led by woke idiots who are not very good at this whole ‘war’ thing because they really don’t care one way or another. And if they discover that, then it’s all over but the swiping.
Secretary of State ANTONY BLINKEN previewed all these findings during a private town hall in April. During that session, the same day the White House released its own summary of a Pentagon review, Blinken said he was unlikely to distribute State’s version in full to keep adversaries from seeing “some of the vulnerabilities and deficiencies that we have.”
Blinken is one of those vulnerabilities and deficiencies and I think they already know about him.
It’s nice of Biden Inc. to try and keep our adversaries from finding out anything about its cowardly disaster in Afghanistan. Presumably, that’s also the motive behind the State Dept’s refusal to cooperate with the Afghanistan watchdog.
In June, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s office (SIGAR), dispatched letters to Secretary of State Blinken and Samantha Power complaining that the State Department and USAID were stonewalling its investigation of waste, corruption and terror cash.
“A State official has informed SIGAR that department staff have received internal direction to not engage with or speak to SIGAR without prior clearance from State legal counsel,” the open letter that was also sent to members of Congress revealed.
Blinken and Power are just trying to prevent our adversaries from finding out that we’re sending money to terrorists. And by adversaries, they don’t mean Russia or China, but the real enemy, the American people.
We asked the State Department why it chose to release the report, which was completed months ago, right before a holiday weekend. A spokesperson said the report “is available to the public, was provided to any media outlet that requested it and documents information that is important at any time.”
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