CIA Warning of Rapid Afghan Collapse Raises Questions of What Joe Biden Knew and When He Knew ItWendell Husebø 18 Aug 2021
Reports of the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) warning of a rapid Afghan collapse raises questions about what President Joe Biden knew and when he knew it.
Current and former U.S. officials told NBC News, the CIA’s worst-case scenario of a potential Afghan collapse came true. It “was pretty close to what happened,” a former official said about the scenario.
Biden acknowledged he received intelligence about Afghanistan on July 8 by answering a question about an intelligence report that predicted an Afghanistan collapse without American support. “That is not true. They did not reach that conclusion,” he said.
“The Afghan government and leadership has to come together,” Biden continued, avoiding any details of the report by placing responsibility on the Afghans. “They have the capacity. They have the forces. They have the equipment. The question is: Will they do it?”
NBC News reported Wednesday the White House would not confirm or deny whether Biden “ever received such a dire forecast from his national security team.”
Biden, however, said during his speech Monday that the collapse of the country “did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated.”
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