John Kirby mistakenly exposes the White House’s disdain for veterans’ concerns over botched Afghanistan withdrawal
America's veterans continue to demand accountability and answers about the Biden-Harris administration's disastrous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan. While some veterans may have long suspected that the Democratic administration was doing its best to ignore their concerns, John Kirby, public affairs adviser to the White House National Security Council, seemed to accidentally confirm that this […]
John Kirby slammed over accidental email to reporter that there’s ‘no use in responding’ to veteran concerns over Afghanistan withdrawal
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby faced intense criticism on Wednesday after he inadvertently emailed a reporter saying there was “no point in reacting” to veterans' concerns about the Harris-Biden administration's failure to pull out of Afghanistan. Kirby, 61, apparently intended to send a negative response to White House staff but accidentally hit […]
Biden-Harris Afghanistan Withdrawal an Avoidable ‘Slow-Moving Train Wreck’
The House Foreign Affairs Committee released a 300-page report on Monday into the Biden-Harris administration's failure to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. The report is particularly unsparing in its criticism of the decisions that led to the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers in a suicide bomb attack at Kabul airport on August 26, 2021. of ReportQualified […]
U.N. Rights Chief Shocked by Taliban’s ‘Outrageous’ Repression of Women in Afghanistan
The Taliban are repressing Afghan women and girls with unprecedented restrictions that will put the country's future at risk, a shocked UN high commissioner for human rights warned on Monday. Volker Turk said the new Islamic morality law, which bans women from speaking or showing their faces in public, and repressive restrictions on education and […]
Even The Feds Can’t Get Biden’s Pentagon To Say How Many People Were Actually Evacuated During Afghanistan Withdrawal
Three years later, pressing questions remain, and even federal investigators have been unable to get the Biden administration's Defense Department to answer how many troops have actually been evacuated from Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal. The Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan was a chaotic operation that initially left 13 service members dead and thousands of […]
House honoring 13 US service members killed in 2021 Abbey Gate bombing during Afghanistan withdrawal
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, will host a gold medal ceremony to honor the 13 U.S. soldiers killed at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Johnson will posthumously award Congress' highest honor, the Gold Medal, to the 13 Americans killed in […]
Congress Honoring The 13 Service Members Killed In Afghanistan Withdrawal
Photos of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan are displayed ahead of a Gold Medal ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2024. Senate and House leaders will attend the ceremony along with the families of the 13 service […]
Afghanistan Gold Star father surprised by GOP report: ‘No more question’ on Biden’s failure
The father of a Marine killed during the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan expressed astonishment at the extent of the Biden administration's failures after a scathing House Republican report was released on Sunday. The 350-page report details numerous failures in the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, including the lack of an evacuation plan […]
Democrats Have Politicized Afghanistan, Biden-Harris Admin. ‘Lied’
During Monday's broadcast of Fox News Channel's “America Report,” Steve Nikoui, the father of Corporal Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing, reacted to the release of the House Republican report on Afghanistan withdrawal, saying, “The administration lied. If it's not Kamala Harris, it's Jen Psaki, if it's not her, it's… […]
Democrat says Trump 'out-negotiated' by Taliban on Afghanistan
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said former President Trump “lost the negotiating table” to the Taliban when he reached an agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan within a specific deadline. “What went wrong with Donald Trump's administration is that he lost the negotiations to the Taliban in Doha and locked both himself and the next […]