Posted on 08/15/2021 6:18:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
As panicked Afghans watched Taliban fighters roll into the capital city of Kabul Sunday, sealing the collapse of the U.S.-backed government there, many Americans were left wondering how top Biden officials could have been so wrong in their recent proclamations that Kabul would not easily fall.
Just days ago, a U.S. military analysis reported by ABC News predicted that Kabul could fall within 90 days -- not by the weekend.
"This is a crisis of untold proportions," Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told NBC News Sunday as Taliban militants swept into Kabul. "This is an intelligence failure. We underestimated the Taliban and overestimated the resolve of the Afghan Army."
But numerous U.S. officials tell ABC News that the opposite was true, insisting that key intelligence assessments had consistently informed policymakers that the Taliban could overwhelm the country and take the capital within week.
"[U.S.] leaders were told by the military it would take no time at all for the Taliban to take everything," an anonymous U.S. intelligence official told ABC News. "No one listened."
Other intelligence sources said that Biden and his team of advisers had reached their decision about the U.S. military's withdrawal -- which was all but completed on July 4 -- based on a variety of factors that went beyond Kabul's fate.
A senior congressional official who asked not to be named in order to discuss sensitive briefings told ABC News that intelligence officers had warned the U.S. leaders about a swift and total victory by the fundamentalist Taliban militants who had held power in Kabul during the late 1990s up until after the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The intelligence community assessment has always been accurate; they just disregarded it," the official told ABC News, speaking about the Biden administration.
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Yes
Biden. Owns. This.
Rhetorical question in headline, right?
no.
Biden is lying
They were too busy tracking down American citizens who said nice things about Donald Trump over the past 5 years.
All of the Deep State got it wrong. Deep,State installed this piss-poor excuse of a man. Now what?
The IC are NOT really all that Intelligent.
See Clapper and Brennan.
The so called intel people gave the Biden pentagon thugs, info that they wanted to hear not reality.
ABC needs to visit the local zoo and interview the chimps on this vexxing question....
;-)
So dog fight between cia and dems...who will win?. Schumer better be careful
I was going to say, this might have been more of a political decision and blunder despite what the facts indicated. Imagine that, an occupation mishap because of politics.
They were so busy pondering six ways to Sunday of retribution against Trump. Besides, does anyone think they care anymore about this country than a crackhead selling so called art?
“Rhetorical question in headline, right?”
Exactly, hahahaha.
FU, Disney
Anonymous intelligence officials.
In case you don’t know the CIA is spying on us. Why do to all the effort to spy on terrorists?
US intelligence was focused 100% on Trump supporters
Bingo.
Just two days ago the greatest domestic terrorist threat were from people opposed to mask mandates.
Too busy investigating Trump.
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