Lawmakers from both parties stormed out of a classified meeting Wednesday, rightly furious at Team Biden obfuscation on Afghanistan.
Officials from the State Department, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence wouldn’t or couldn’t answer the simplest questions from House Foreign Affairs Committee members, CNN reported.
Among the mysteries: How many Americans really got left behind? State officials now say about 100 Americans still want to get out of Afghanistan. But Team Biden originally put the figure at around 100 and now says more than 75 have gotten out in the weeks since the president stuck to his pullout date. Funny how the “100” number never changes.
Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the committee, told CNN: “I believe there’s still hundreds of Americans still left behind enemy lines.” And “the majority of the interpreters,” Afghans whose lives are now at risk because they helped Uncle Sam these last two decades, “did not get out.” Worse, “I don’t think [the Biden officials] know all the answers.”
The reality is most likely a combination of ignorance and deception: Having authored a horrific debacle, the Bidenites lowballed their estimates of citizens left behind and have done their best not to even mention the likely thousands of green-card holders or the perhaps 100,000 Afghan allies (such as the interpreters) whom the president once vowed to evacuate.
Worst of all, they’re hoping the nation just forgets about the people abandoned in this epic betrayal. We’re not sure which is more repugnant: their cowardice or their cynicism.