How many lies or pieces of “misinformation” have we heard so far from the Biden Administration about the American withdrawal from Afghanistan? Heck, the lies began before the withdrawal happened. Secretary of State Blinken said he knew NOTHING about a withdrawal plan. Of all people, the U.S. State Department would certainly be “in the loop” about something that important. In fact, the Secretary of State should have been responsible for such a plan in conjunction with U.S. Military leaders!
Blinken denied the Trump Administration gave them a plan Trump and then-Secretary of State Pompeo had negotiated in detail with the former President of Afghanistan and the Taliban leader. We had a copy of that plan at TruthNewsNetwork. That proves again that the truth is not automatically intrinsic to operations in the Biden Gang. But we all knew that.
Lying to the American people with impunity is the normal operation of most in this Administration. Wait, though: it gets worse.
Santa Claus In Afghanistan
The United States and other international donors pump around $80 million in aid to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan every two weeks in the face of mounting evidence that the terror group steals this cash through fraudulent nonprofits and other means, according to a government watchdog.
The United Nations sends “cash shipments” to Afghanistan every 10 to 14 days, money that is supposed to be shielded from the Taliban, according to the latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Biden administration has allocated more than $2.5 billion for humanitarian projects in Afghanistan since its 2020 evacuation from the country, and international donors provided billions more for the country.
While the State Department has provided assurances this aid is not enriching the Taliban, SIGAR reports that the terror group’s “interference into UN and NGO activities has continued to rise throughout 2023.” This interference includes arresting aid workers and demanding that “sensitive data” about various projects be turned over to Taliban officials. The terror group also “indirectly benefit[s] from U.S. education funding through the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance, and by infiltrating and extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,” according to SIGAR’s summary of its report.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which remains active in the war-torn country, also said that “agency-funded projects were affected by Taliban interference” in recent months, according to the SIGAR report. But the Taliban’s meddling in international aid projects has not stopped the United States and other Western nations from pumping money into Afghanistan, generating concerns the terror group is enriching itself while the nation starves.
USAID reported that “some of their partner staff members had been detained this quarter by local Taliban authorities because of the staff members’ efforts to prevent the diversion of aid to non-eligible individuals,” according to SIGAR.
Programs also have been hindered by the Taliban’s insistence that women not be placed in a supervisory role or any other prominent position. International charities reported throughout the year on Taliban efforts to siphon aid, bolstering SIGAR’s most recent findings and posing a challenge to American aid efforts.
Amid these concerns, a U.N. shipment of cash arrives in the country every couple of weeks and “is placed in designated UN accounts in a private bank” that the Taliban cannot touch, the U.N. agency claims. From December 2021 to July 2023, the United Nations transferred $2.9 billion for “humanitarian operations.”
In the two years since the Biden administration pulled U.S. forces from the country, “the Taliban have shaped governing institutions to serve their aims and cement power,” according to SIGAR. The terror group remains “firmly in control of the country,” according to a U.N. assessment, “and continued to implement what they consider their ‘Islamic system.'”
The Biden administration maintains talks with the terror group that could result in U.S. recognition of the government. These talks continued in July of this year, when senior U.S. officials traveled to Qatar “to engage with the Taliban on issues of mutual interest,” SIGAR reported.
The U.S. military also coordinates anti-terrorism operations with the Taliban, mainly those targeting ISIS.
“A U.S. intelligence official reportedly said the United States is sharing counterterrorism information with the Taliban, but not ‘actionable intelligence,’ or targeting data,” according to SIGAR.
Summary
Don’t think this is “all there is.” I suspect we’ll be discovering dozens of incredulous occurrences in the Biden Administration that few, if any, knew about before Biden leaves office. “It can’t possibly be as bad as it seems.”
Yes, it can…and it likely will be worse.
Nothing is too anti-American for the State Department, CIA and DOJ. They’ve been proving it for years. The US membership in the UN is evidence enough. How has the American citizen benefited from UN association?
But that is all to be expected, I suppose, when a population continues to be satisfied with a ruling body which does not print its political agenda for the public to see. Neither political party publishes an agenda nor even a statement of what they stand for. So, how could the public expect other than what we are getting? Our “participation” is illusory. We could step aside, allow Howdy Doody to become president and congress both, and not much would change. Perhaps we have already done that.