Russell Travers
Posted on 08/22/2021 9:28:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
As recriminations fly among Biden officials over who bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal, some are questioning the responsibility of Russell Travers, who was fired by the Trump administration as acting head of the National Counterterrorism and subsequently rehired by President Joe Biden to lead the interagency process on the evacuation operation.
In March 2020, then-Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell fired Travers as acting head of the NCTC as part of the Trump administration’s efforts to streamline a bloated agency and remove ineffective individuals.
The move was decried by former officials as a “purge” of career professionals, the Washington Post reported. “The removals have shocked Travers’s colleagues, who are upset at the treatment of someone so well-regarded, according to the two former officials.”
Travers would later sign a letter declaring the belief that the disclosure of emails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
In January, Biden rehired Travers as deputy homeland security adviser at the National Security Council to go after domestic extremists.
In June, Biden promoted Travers to senior deputy homeland security adviser at the NSC and put him in charge of evacuating Afghan special immigrant visa applicants to the U.S.
Travers had boasted about how well the evacuation plan was going on July 2021, on a conference call with reporters:
"I am immensely proud to announce our first group of Afghan special immigrants to be relocated under Operation Allies Refuge is now on their way to America. This flight represents a fulfillment of the U.S. commitment and honors these Afghans’ brave service in helping support our mission in Afghanistan."
The plan to evacuate Afghan SIV applicants is now in disarray, and there are estimates of as many as 65,000 or more Afghans scrambling to get out of Afghanistan.
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“Privately, men and women that I served with have been doing more to get SIVs out of the country than Russ Travers and the White House. They have been chartering flights, they have been putting together programs, contacting allies, and then when they try to get people out of country, they’re told by the U.S. government that ‘you’re not allowed,’ so it’s just tragic all around,” said Kash Patel, a former Grenell deputy at DNI and former Pentagon chief of staff.
“The SIV programs falls squarely on Russ Travers, but ultimately the White House. They gave it to him to do, and either him or they or both didn’t do anything,” Patel added.
Grenell said about Travers, “I replaced him as head of the Counterterrorism Center and I put in a career official who was eager to reform the place.”
Russell Travers
Another Deep State loser and incompetent Obama/Biden failure.
Gives new meaning the “affirmative action” promoted. He moves up the career ladder along with the bodies of his victims due to his incompetency.
How “deep” is Deep State? Here’s a guy who Trump fired who was brought back and, well...
Gee, I wonder who was giving Biden all this bad advice on how to handle Afghanistan?
Great, tards working for the tard. Just layering them on top of one another. Great solution libtards.
SO I guess that means they got all the Americans out already?
You can flush the toilet, but occasionally, you get a floater.
The deep state can only be controlled by taking away the money...
Thanks Marv.
Strange
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