A few weeks ago when Kabul was under siege from the Taliban, Biden was vacationing at Camp David. After coming back for a speech and then resuming his vacation, he ultimately had to end it early because of the disaster unfolding in Kabul.
Now we are learning that Biden wasn’t the only top official in his administration that went on vacation days before Kabul fell to the Taliban:
DAILY MAIL – Secretary of State Antony Blinken was reportedly vacationing in the Hamptons just hours before Kabul fell to the Taliban, despite warnings that the city was at risk.
Blinken was one of several top-level Biden administration officials to have gone on vacation the Friday before the Afghan capitol was taken by the group on August 15.
President Joe Biden himself was also on a trip away, and had arrived at the presidential retreat at Camp David that day.
Blinken was already on vacation, according to a timeline of the events leading up to Kabul’s capture compiled by the Washington Post.The officials appeared to not be overly concerned with the situation on the ground, the outlet reported.
Intelligence reports had estimated that Kabul was not likely to be at risk from the Taliban for several months – probably until at least late fall.
But the Afghanistan military collapsed and the warlords swept through the country in a little over a week.
Actually there were some intel reports that said Kabul would fall rapidly, admitted by General Milley. ABC News reported that some intelligence said that the country would quickly fall and NBC’s Chief Foreign correspondent tweeted that even he’d heard this as well:
The failure to anticipate the rapid fall of afghan cities, including kabul, is a huge US intelligence failure. I know some US mil commanders anticipated it. They told me. Yet somehow their voices were not heard.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 15, 2021
So the truth is that both Biden and Blinken had the intelligence on this and ignored it, which is why they were on vacation during the fall of Kabul.
Now the Pentagon is claiming that there was no way to predict how quickly Kabul would fall:
"There was simply no way to predict" how quickly Kabul would fall to the Taliban, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby tells @JenGriffinFNC
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) August 30, 2021
But I thought Biden said he planned for every contingency? How quickly these fools change their story to excuse their abhorrent planning for this evacuation.