The Report on U.S. Officials Giving Taliban a List of American and Allied Afghans Makes Sense – The Lists Were Provided to Taliban by State Dept. and CIA

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 27 Aug, 2021 | Sundance

[MtnClimber]

There are two puzzle pieces that help to make sense of the Politico report about “U.S. Officials” giving the Taliban a list of American and U.S. Afghan names to allow through the checkpoints. {GO DEEP 1 and GO DEEP 2} However, if you don’t understand the two dueling power teams -each attempting to position- it doesn’t make sense.

Remember, the State Dept (DoS) and CIA are one team. The White House and Pentagon are another team.

♦ TEAM One – The Department of State is aligned with the CIA. Their media PR firms are CNN, CNNi and the Washington Post. Their ideology is favorable to the United Nations. Their internal corruption is generally driven by relationship with foreign actors. References: Hillary Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, John McCain, Qatar, Muslim Brotherhood, Samantha Powers, Susan Rice, Cass Sunstein, Brookings Institute, Lawfare, China-centric, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Council on Foreign Relations.

♦ TEAM Two – The White House is aligned with the Pentagon (DoD) and National Security Council (NSC). Their media PR firms are domestic in nature. New York Times, Politico, etc. Their internal corruption is generally driven by domestic influence. References: Barack Obama, George Bush, Wall St, Big Banks, Multinational Corporations, Defense Contractors, FBI (state police), Judicial Branch, and community activists writ large.

Both teams are highly political. However, the State Dept/CIA team consider themselves above political changes; essentially the deeper Deep State.

With the DoS/CIA aligned with CNN/WaPo, when the Pentagon needs to defend their specific interests in crisis management, they must go elsewhere, hence Politico.

[kelly4c]

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[Joe Boucher]

For years the State Dept has been manned by America hating pieces of shit.
Todays CIA and FBI are no better.
Difference today is the president is an America hating piece of dung too.

[Wuli]

This is - all over again - a massive U.S. Middle East fail, akin to the early days in Iraq after we ousted Saddam - where many of the failures, mistakes and errors arise from internal turf wars between different U.S. executive departments.

A good President would have told DOD you are in charge, and you DOS & CIA will do nothing that is not done without checking it through the DOD, and doing it only as the DOD wants it done.

But then again, we’d still have the problems in this case caused by the DOD itself, like closing Bagram first instead of last.