Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has promised to launch an investigation of Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Joe Biden’s catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 was a humiliating disaster that handed the country back to the Taliban, abandoned American citizens and Afghan allies, and left 13 U.S. service members dead in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport.
The administration’s poor planning led to desperate civilians clinging to departing planes, billions of dollars in U.S. military equipment falling into Taliban hands, and a chaotic retreat that emboldened Islamists across the Middle East.
Speaking to Breitbart News, Hegseth promised that he would ensure accountability against those responsible.
“We’ve already identified folks that’ll be in charge of that full investigation inside the Pentagon,” Hegseth said.
“I don’t have a timeframe on it. Sadly, we’ve already waited two-and-a-half years, three years since what occurred,” he explained. “I don’t want to wait longer, but I always want to get it right.”
He continued:
The way you establish real accountability is by establishing real fact chains — chains of events, information, what happened.
Why did it happen? Who made the decision? What was the reason they made that decision? Why did they give advice or not give advice? Why did they execute an order a certain way?
Did they speak up when they were supposed to or not? I don’t think there’s anybody that feels like there’s been an honest accounting of what happened in Afghanistan. That’s our job.
So, we’re going to drive that full investigation and get a sense of what happened. And as I stated to the workforce on Friday, I guess less than a week ago, accountability will be coming for what happened in Afghanistan, and that’s important to reestablishing trust at the Defense Department.
Last month, a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Joe Biden had been too “mentally fatigued” to take a phone call from the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee ahead of the withdrawal operation.
According to the Journal, Democratic Rep. Adam Smith wanted to warn Biden about the risks of proceeding with the withdrawal and share the committee’s findings about the challenges they would face.
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