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Biden State Dept Moved to Abolish Crisis Response Bureau Months Before Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan
Free Beacon ^ | 18 Aug 2021 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 08/19/2021 9:03:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

The Biden State Department moved in June to cancel a program overseeing the protection and evacuation of American citizens stationed overseas in the case of an emergency, just as the Taliban was taking over Afghanistan, according to an internal State Department memo obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and multiple sources familiar with the matter.

That memo, which was marked sensitive but unclassified and was signed by Deputy Secretary Brian McKeon, approved the "discontinuation of the establishment, and termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR)," a new State Department entity created during the Trump administration to coordinate emergency response services overseas.

The State Department on Wednesday informed Americans trapped in Kabul that it "cannot ensure safe passage" to the airport, which is currently surrounded by Taliban militants.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; afghanistan; california; canceled; nancypelosi; waronterror
Joe the jamoke has a plan!
1 posted on 08/19/2021 9:03:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

And STILL no gallows...


2 posted on 08/19/2021 9:04:48 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Huh.

Almost like The Biden Crime Family planned it.


3 posted on 08/19/2021 9:04:57 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
The same people who tried to morally blackmail you into supporting a failed Forever War in Afghanistan—the ones who declared that you were either on board with the new international interventionist imperative or you were with the terrorists—are now trying to morally blackmail you into supporting open borders with Afghanistan and every other country that America’s incompetent elites thought they could turn into Stepford if only they invaded it hard enough. In truth, the entire foundation of the Washington establishment’s failed foreign policy is its members’ own feelings of guilt.

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Anyone missing me, yet?

Arguments can be made about the US policy to pull out - there is a strong feeling that US involvement couldn't continue ad infinitum. But the manner of the withdrawal has been hapless, with a mass of miscalculation, warnings ignored, and - critically - a wild over-estimation of the capability of the American-trained Afghan armed forces.

The policy may have been framed by Donald Trump when he was president, but Joe Biden owns this unfolding chaos.

Anyone missing me, yet?


4 posted on 08/19/2021 9:08:54 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, China, Cuba, or Chicago! I'd move there! )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
The Biden State Department moved in June to cancel a program overseeing the protection and evacuation of American citizens stationed overseas in the case of an emergency...

No problem - Washington Post toadies will give Biden a pass.

5 posted on 08/19/2021 9:09:02 AM PDT by GOPJ (Our incompetent military brass needs to spend less time reading Marx and more time doing their jobs.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
… " a new State Department entity created during the Trump administration to coordinate emergency response services overseas.

Was that new entity created to deal with crises such as the Benghazi fiasco?

6 posted on 08/19/2021 9:13:35 AM PDT by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: LIConFem


7 posted on 08/19/2021 9:14:02 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The Obama/Clinton crew from BlackRock are well entrenched in the White House.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 9:15:06 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: blueunicorn6

“Almost like The Biden Crime Family planned it”

Too many things falling into line to not think its some sort of plan.
This on top of the US abandoning Bagram airbase full of gear, weapons and 5000 Taliban prisoners in the dead of night and not tell our allies much less the Afghan goverment?

Not a coincedence


9 posted on 08/19/2021 9:15:46 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: DUMBGRUNT

And the plan that the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime is following may be described as, if you stumble upon a Trump program that was working, reverse it with all possible haste. Disregard consequences, and claim that “everything is being built back better”.


10 posted on 08/19/2021 9:20:13 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Poor people give rich people all their money anyway. Just as they have always done.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The dumbasses in the XiJinBiden government's view on EVERYTHING:

CRISIS? WHAT CRISIS?


11 posted on 08/19/2021 9:26:26 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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—”Washington Post toadies will give Biden a pass.”

I see they are a bit miffed about some of their reporters being stuck.

But they pay them by the word...
SO no words, no reporters, no problems.


12 posted on 08/19/2021 9:30:45 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Anything Trump signed into law or EO has been rescinded no matter its success.


13 posted on 08/19/2021 10:28:03 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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