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Adam Kredo
August 22, 2024
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki made no attempt to "challenge or question" inaccurate information from the Biden-Harris administration during its disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, she told lawmakers during a closed-door interview with the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In more than 230 pages of written testimony, a transcript of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Psaki revealed that she almost never consulted with the State Department or Pentagon, the primary agencies orchestrating the withdrawal, and did not attempt to investigate information that contradicted her claims to the American public.
Psaki, who served as press secretary during the August 2021 withdrawal before leaving the administration for MSNBC, sat down for the interview with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on July 26. Lawmakers pressed her on false and misleading information she peddled from the podium during the withdrawal, the transcript shows.
Psaki, for example, called it "irresponsible" to say Americans were "stranded" in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal. One month after the administration's hurried exit, in September 2021, she said "around 100" Americans were left there. By October, administration officials were privately relaying to lawmakers that nearly 400 Americans were left in Afghanistan and still attempting to leave.
Still, Psaki said during her interview that she considered the administration's communication process during the withdrawal to be "sound." She said she did not have a "mechanism" to "challenge the quality or veracity of the policymakers’ information" related to the withdrawal.
The rest of article here: https://freebeacon.com/national-sec...nformation-on-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal/
There was plenty of independent reporting and knowledge that the Biden Administration was lying about the facts of the debacle in Afghanistan. A responsible Press Secretary would or should have questioned the NSC sources that were misleading the public or simply resigned if required to lie to the American people.
In Closed-Door Testimony, Jen Psaki Says She Didn’t ‘Challenge or Question’ Biden-Harris Admin’s Inaccurate Information on Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal
Press secretary turned MSNBC host tells congressional committee she didn't investigate information that contradicted her public statements
Adam Kredo
August 22, 2024
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki made no attempt to "challenge or question" inaccurate information from the Biden-Harris administration during its disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, she told lawmakers during a closed-door interview with the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In more than 230 pages of written testimony, a transcript of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Psaki revealed that she almost never consulted with the State Department or Pentagon, the primary agencies orchestrating the withdrawal, and did not attempt to investigate information that contradicted her claims to the American public.
Psaki, who served as press secretary during the August 2021 withdrawal before leaving the administration for MSNBC, sat down for the interview with the House Foreign Affairs Committee on July 26. Lawmakers pressed her on false and misleading information she peddled from the podium during the withdrawal, the transcript shows.
Psaki, for example, called it "irresponsible" to say Americans were "stranded" in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal. One month after the administration's hurried exit, in September 2021, she said "around 100" Americans were left there. By October, administration officials were privately relaying to lawmakers that nearly 400 Americans were left in Afghanistan and still attempting to leave.
Still, Psaki said during her interview that she considered the administration's communication process during the withdrawal to be "sound." She said she did not have a "mechanism" to "challenge the quality or veracity of the policymakers’ information" related to the withdrawal.
The rest of article here: https://freebeacon.com/national-sec...nformation-on-bungled-afghanistan-withdrawal/
There was plenty of independent reporting and knowledge that the Biden Administration was lying about the facts of the debacle in Afghanistan. A responsible Press Secretary would or should have questioned the NSC sources that were misleading the public or simply resigned if required to lie to the American people.
