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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Did they?
Duh, US Intelligence is only good for spying on and killing Patriotic US citizens.
Couldn’t argue with that.
Surfing porn and surveilling evil white supremacist PTA mom’s is a time consuming business. What did you expect out of government workers?
Typical of liberals. They always know better than anyone, even the informed professionals.
No question our foreign intelligence operation failed miserably. That is the CIA, NSA and military intelligence.
Intelligence? That’s an oxymoron.
Not sure how you could have interpreted what I said as pro-Biden. In short, it would not surprise me if intelligence had a reasonable grasp of the facts at hand, but Biden decided what he wanted to do without regard to those facts. And screwed up miserably. If you think that’s pro-Biden, then reading comprehension is not your friend.
“We may have made a little mistake. Ha ha! Now we will watch our allies and perhaps Americans being beheaded. Oh well! These things happen! The important thing is that our intentions were good. Am I right? ‘Course I am.”
The CIA will come at you 8 different ways. Just ask JFK.
All the pointy fingers will come out now, pointing at each other.
CIA and Pentagon will blame Biden, saying we told him. Biden will say he was misled by CIA and Pentagon, and anyway it’s Trump’s fault. All busy as bees, figuring out what lies to tell, so as to levy blame on someone else.
Maybe that is the exact reason the left wants everyone to surrender their guns.
If we knew so much about their force structure, why didn’t we take them out?
Anytime and every time that you go and make comments covering for the leftist asshole Biden who is stealing my freedoms and I am going to rhetorically gut you every time like a quisling worm.
No “they” did not get it wrong., “ they” were successful. Players made money out of the excursion along with the entities driving the decision making process. People who craved power and position got their fill.
The marks are the flag waving American citizens and the local Afghans idiotic enough with what the United States bureaucracy was selling. No excuses since this BS was done many times since the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
Screw this world, it’s corrupt as hell. Jesus or bust for me at this point, US is a shell of itself.
Yes, US intelligence got it wrong: the morons who put Biden in the White House lack it.
That is a really scary assessment, but—I’m afraid—right on!
Another day begins in Kabul, a sea of people rushing into the Kabul airport terminal. #AFG pic.twitter.com/UekpGJ2MWd— Jawad Sukhanyar (@JawadSukhanyar) August 16, 2021
Am now watching Fox News’ program on Woke-ism, and in the next segment, they will be discussing its links to China.
So far, the reporting has been excellent—but scary!
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