Posted on 09/01/2021 1:24:33 PM PDT by DFG
The Biden administration has begun scrubbing public records detailing the $82.9 billion U.S. investment in Afghanistan's armed forces to protect Afghan officials and military officers from Taliban reprisals.
Federal agencies have been told to remove information detailing the colossal investment from website as Afghanistan's new rulers show off their newly acquired hardware.
Taliban fighters stood aboard captured Humvees and armored SUVs as they paraded through Kandahar, where propaganda video has circulated of a Black Hawk flying overhead.
In all, they are believed to have seized an air force worth tens of millions of dollars although U.S. officials say aircraft were disabled before the departure of international troops.
The total amount of hardware supplied to Afghanistan is staggering. Between 2003 and 2016, the U.S. supplied 208 aircraft and almost 76,000 vehicles, along with 600,000 weapons, according to a 2017 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
But details of that weaponry is now disappearing under orders from the State Department.
'The safety of our Afghan contacts is of utmost importance to us,' said a spokesperson.
'The State Department advised other federal agencies to review their web properties for content that highlights cooperation/participation between an Afghan citizen and the USG or a USG partner and remove from public view if it poses a security risk.'
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Yes. Yes, it is.
I know it’s a bit more now for the new ones that don’t work like the old ones, but our old super carriers cost about $5 Billion a piece. So we could have 16 more super carriers in the world’s oceans for what the Taliban now has?
Brilliant!!!
Yet he wants to disarm American citizens here at home.
The Taliban are going to have one hell of a 9-11 celebration using our weapons.
Nancy Pelosi ORDERED the Military not to bring those Weapons of War back to the US
scrub-a-dub-dub
Various activist groups will probably file Freedom of Information Act requests for the hidden information. These will be followed by lawsuits when the requests are denied.
The federal agencies will then have to defend the supposed security-related denials in court before a skeptical judge. Going to be hard to justify dropping a security blackout around previously public information and have it not look like a move to hide embarrassing information. Classification regulations specifically forbid hiding information for that reason.
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