Military officials have said that for weeks they urged the State Department to move faster in evacuating its diplomatic personnel. State Department officials have said they were operating based on intelligence assessments that suggested they had more time, but intelligence officials insist that they had long reported the possibility of a rapid Taliban takeover.
An intelligence assessment produced within the last month assessed that the Taliban were pursuing a total military victory in Afghanistan, a source familiar with the intelligence said, despite ostensibly negotiating for peace in Doha and even as the administration continued to express confidence in those talks.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/17/politics/biden-afghanistan-blame-shifting/index.html
“State Department officials have said they were operating based on intelligence assessments that suggested they had more time,”
An outright lie. If Biden wans any chance to try to save his presidency, he should reveal the lie and put the blame for the disaster on them. He’s good at blaming everyone else anyway.