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CIA warned of rapid Afghanistan collapse. So why did U.S. get it so wrong?
NBC News / Comcast ^ | August 17, 2021 | By Ken Dilanian, Mike Memoli, Courtney Kube and Josh Lederman

Posted on 08/18/2021 4:03:45 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

As the Taliban began seizing provinces across Afghanistan in recent weeks, the CIA’s intelligence assessments began to warn in increasingly stark terms about the potential for a rapid, total collapse of the Afghan military and government, current and former U.S. officials told NBC News.

In the end, the CIA’s description of what a worst-case scenario could look like “was pretty close to what happened,” one former official briefed on the matter said.

The White House won’t confirm whether President Joe Biden ever received such a dire forecast from his national security team. The president himself appeared to dispute a month ago that intelligence suggested the increasing likelihood that the Afghan military would fold.

But it is precisely that outcome that has emerged as one of the administration’s chief arguments to justify the president standing by his decision to end the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan.

CIA officials were taken aback by the rapid pace of the military’s pullout, including the dead-of-night withdrawal from Bagram Air Base in July, according to the former official. And many officials are expressing annoyance at the State Department, which officials say was extremely slow in processing the paperwork needed to deal with Afghan translators and others eligible for resettlement.

“Interagency coordination, especially among warfighters, diplomats and intelligence officers, is critical at times like this,” the former official said. “Obviously, it was deficient.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bidenforeignpolicy; cia; leaks; taliban; wediditjoe
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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61 posted on 08/18/2021 6:55:03 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: HypatiaTaught

Bingo


62 posted on 08/18/2021 8:34:27 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why did they get it so wrong?
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Because Biden had the final decision.


63 posted on 08/18/2021 9:31:31 AM PDT by Vinnie ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So why did U.S. get it so wrong?

A rock could answer that... "BECAUSE WE HAVE NO LEADERSHIP"

64 posted on 08/18/2021 10:31:19 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: cnsmom

Gov.Smurphy said he will welcome with open arms the 1000 “refugees” heading to NJ. He said nothing about vetting them.. Nothing about which towns he will dump them.


65 posted on 08/23/2021 4:57:21 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Biden IS everything they said Trump was and then some.


66 posted on 08/23/2021 5:01:42 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Biden IS everything they said Trump was and then some.


67 posted on 08/23/2021 5:02:30 PM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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