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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Failure of intelligence?
Or intelligence operation?
Last US chopper leaves Kabul embassy in Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/Pp62EkM2LA— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 15, 2021
There was zero US intelligence in the White House.
That’s right Chuckie...they’ve got six ways from Sunday to get back at you...
I think they’re all buddies and they ALL screwed up again.
They were too busy investigating garage door pulls.
What U.S. intelligence?
Please point me in THAT direction. I’m not seeing it.
The Biden folks were not at all worried. They figured all they needed to do was print up 100,000 fake soldiers, deliver them in the middle of the night when the country was closed and everything would be okay.
US Intelligence is an oxymoron.
I do not see how this could possibly be blamed on the United States’ Intellegence Services. Did not the Depatment of Just-Us and the Joe&Ho show directed them to find that group of White Supremist that are a danger to our ‘democracy’ and all those evil Trump supporters whom are enemies of the state and all those anti-vaxers who are endangering society?
Com’on Folks, those poor poor Intellegency Services are too damned over worked to even think about any foreign matters.
The CIA has been a mess since the Kenyanesian Usurper put a marxist muslim in charge.
“U.S. intelligence” is an oxymoron at this stage of the game.
The better question is when do they get it right.
Just think. When the full on invasion of America comes. It might end up a lot like this. Very little resistance.
“C’mon man!” — Don’t you know the FBI, CIA, DIA, and DHS have to root out all the insurrectionists and white supremacists! They don’t have time to waste on the Religion of Peace.
“Afghanistan’s collapse: Did US intelligence get it wrong?”
They didn’t get it wrong...they weren’t even looking at it. Too busy with diversity training and in their spare time spying on republicans.
The thing that has me chuckling is that people think Biden was telling the truth.
They probably told him it was going to go down exactly like this…and he just flat out lied. And his minions in the MI world will just go along with it.
The entire system is screwed.
Nah. No way! The idiots that lead us are the best idiots in the world. They put the “P” in “parasite” and the “D” in “dicks.”
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