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 […]
Kirby: ‘No use in responding’ to a ‘handful of vets’ on botched Afghan withdrawal
On the anniversary of 9/11, John Kirby, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, dismissed concerns from veterans criticizing the failure to withdraw from Afghanistan, writing in a press inquiry from Fox News Digital that there was “no point” in weighing in on veterans' opinions. “Obviously, there's no point in replying; there is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Congress to Honor 13 Service Members Killed in the Afghanistan Withdrawal
Congress will honor 13 American service members killed in the Biden-Harris administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Tuesday. The ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET in the Capitol Rotunda, just hours before the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who has sought to […]
White House pushes back against scathing report on Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan
The White House dismissed a report released Sunday by Republican lawmakers criticizing President Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as partisan and containing “little to nothing new.” The committee's Republican chairman, Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, released a Republican-led report that disputed claims that President Biden is bound by an agreement between former President […]
State Department denies lack of planning for withdrawal laid out in GOP-led Afghanistan report
In a new statement, the State Department backed a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 after Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a scathing 350-page report detailing dysfunction and lack of planning leading up to the withdrawal. A statement from a State Department spokesman said Republicans have “issued partisan statements, cherry-picked facts, suppressed […]
Retired generals defend Harris, blame Trump on Afghanistan withdrawal: report
A group of retired generals is coming to the defense of Vice President Kamala Harris against criticism over the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this week. The group of 10 former generals and admirals includes Navy Adm. Steve Abbott, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd […]