Posted on 08/25/2021 4:46:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON — Two members of Congress flew unannounced into Kabul airport in the middle of the chaotic evacuation stunning State Department and U.S. military personnel who had to divert resources to provide security and information to the lawmakers, U.S. officials said.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., flew in and out on charter aircraft and were on the ground at the Kabul airport for several hours Tuesday. That led officials to complain that they could be taking seats that would have otherwise gone to other Americans or Afghans fleeing the country, but the congressmen said in a joint statement that they made sure to leave on a flight with empty seats.
Three officials familiar with the flight said that State Department, Defense Department and White House officials were furious about the incident because it was done without coordination with diplomats or military commanders directing the evacuation.
One senior U.S. official said the administration saw the lawmakers’ visit as manifestly unhelpful and several other officials said the visit was viewed as a distraction for troops and commanders at the airport who are waging a race against time to evacuate thousands of Americans, at-risk Afghans and others as quickly as possible.
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Surprised they weren’t bringing their pet goats, i mean wives.
Let’s hope they learned and report something.
We already have the AssPress covering the Government’s position that no observation of this f___up is allowed.
Others?
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French Germans Dutch etc.
Whatever do you mean?
All the right (wrong) people....are mad at them
The ONLY REASON to be that angry about others going there is because the Biden Administration is LYING to the country about the situation there and these guys, and any others who go there, could easily blow their cover.
And by the way, they didn’t deprive 2 Americans of being evacuated - at worst they deprived 2 Afghans, as 95% (at least) of the people being flown out are Afghans.
Guessing most folks caught behind enemy lines are deep state globalists.
The Euros are regretting sub contracting military defense to the US and not funding their own military
Let’s see what happens
Keep in mind .....knowing President Trump.....they knew everything would be done right and orderly
But their mistake was not getting OUT when the election went sideways....
....or were a lot of them woke Biden supporters
I think they’re trying to save their House seats.
They weren't in Benghazi.
Reading the AP propaganda, it sounds like most of the Washington ruling class are pissed off at Moulton and Meijer.
So maybe they actually done good.
True. I think most people caught there are swamp creatures, and this is why the press is so upset.
If we had fifty thousand trump supporters there getting their heads chopped off, as General Mike Hayden has intimated, they would be happy about it.
Not the military.....
.....but what about the CIA assets, State Dept folks.....
....we never heard a peep from them when they returned...
...even after our guys fought solely for them and two died!
Not a peep!
Deep State has gotten smarter.
This time they’re going to hide the people they really want dead in amongst a lot of collateral damage.
This isn’t a cluster ****.
It’s the plan.
Yea we need him on south park as mental midget telling everyone he found a new species in the mirror .
If the can do 640 or 871 bodies, what's 2 more? Actually I believe they have reported that planes are leaving with empty seats. Go figure.
non disclosure agreements iirc
Senile joe is upset because the commanders on the ground speak on background and tell the reps that Biden is making mistake after mistake.
Could have brought 2 more Trashcanis to America, the nerve of those guys. Biden won’t remember today.
Biden is so incompetent that if he decides to destroy you then Within a week you will win the lottery, get a big promotion, discover an extra 10 million in your bank account and bank says “our bad, just keep it’.
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