Bombshell: U.S. Intelligence Admits To Huge Oversight
This evacuation is going to go up there with Saigon in worst ever. ISIS-K killed over 100 people with their bombing last week including the deaths of 13 marines. But it turns out this attack too could have been avoided. You see these ISIS-K terrorists that have suddenly turned up around the airport are very likely the ones we had imprisoned. The Taliban released over 5000 ISIS prisoners when they took over... Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin asked U.S. Defense Press Sec. John F. Kirby the million-dollar question during a recent press briefing.
Griffin: "And in terms of ISIS-K, how many ISIS-K prisoners were left at Bagram and are believed to have been released from the prison there? And why weren't they removed before the U.S. pulled out, to some place like Gitmo?"
MR. KIRBY: "Well -- well, I -- I don't know the exact number. Clearly, it's in the thousands, when you -- when you -- when you consider both prisons, cause both of them were taken over by the Taliban and emptied, but I -- I couldn't give you a precise figure.
And as for emptying out, remember -- I mean, we were turning things over to Afghan National Security Forces. That was part of the retrograde process, was to turn over these responsibilities. And so they did have responsibility for those prisons and the bases at which those prisons were located.
And, of course, as the Taliban advanced, the -- the -- we didn't see the level of resistance by the Afghans to hold some territory, some bases, and unfortunately, those were bases that the Afghans didn't hold. But all of those responsibilities were turned over, in accordance with the retrograde plan back from April."
Once the plan started falling apart they should've sent in more troops and regrouped. Right now we still have numerous Americans still trying to get out and the Taliban is making it hard to leave. Griffin is right we should have moved those terrorists to Gitmo or held onto the prisons until we had evacuated. That's thousands of terrorists the Taliban just sicced on us. Thanks, Biden.