The Army was tasked to conduct an investigation of the withdrawal and subsequently released over 2000 pages and their conclusion to the Washington Post based on Freedom of Information Request.
From the Washington Post Army Investigative Report:
“Senior White House and State Department officials failed to grasp the Taliban’s steady advance on Afghanistan’s capital and resisted efforts by U.S. military leaders to prepare the evacuation of embassy personnel and Afghan allies weeks before Kabul’s fall, placing American troops ordered to carry out the withdrawal in greater danger, according to sworn testimony from multiple commanders involved in the operation.
An Army investigative report, numbering 2,000 pages and released to The Washington Post through Freedom of Information Act request, details the life-or-death decisions made daily by U.S. soldiers and Marines sent to secure Hamid Karzai International Airport as thousands converged on the airfield in a frantic bid to escape”.
Biden says he rejects findings of Army report on Afghanistan
President Biden on Thursday said he rejected the accounts and findings of an Army investigative report in which military officials reportedly criticized Biden administration officials for failing t…
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Asked if he was rejecting the findings of the report, Biden replied, “Yes, I am.”
“I am rejecting them,” he said.
The Post reported earlier this week that the Army report stretches thousands of pages and contains sworn testimony from commanders involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer.
