Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his national security adviser Jake Sullivan over

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Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his national security adviser Jake Sullivan over key decisions made in run-up to US withdrawal from Afghanistan

    Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him over decisions made in run-up to US withdrawal from Afghanistan
    The under-fire US President is accused of insisting on recalling US troops ahead of the 9/11 anniversary
    Biden allegedly ignored warnings it would not leave military enough time to get US nationals and allies out
    Ex-official claimed the Biden administration functions 'like an autocracy' and stifles internal dissent
    Going into September with large contingent of US troops in Afghanistan could be damaging for Biden
    President campaigned on ending 'forever wars' and is likely to be keeping an eye on midterm elections

By Jack Wright For Mailonline

Published: 11:10 EDT, 22 August 2021 | Updated: 11:40 EDT, 22 August 2021

Joe Biden's aides were 'too afraid' to quiz him and his National Security Adviser over key decisions made in the run-up to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to sources close to the US administration.

The President is accused of insisting on recalling US troops ahead of the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington DC, and allegedly ignored warnings that it would not leave the military enough time to get American nationals and allies out.

A former defence official in regular contact with senior White House aides suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned administration staffers because they were 'too afraid' of challenging Mr Biden and his National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan.

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9916577/Bidens-aides-afraid-quiz-key-decisions-run-Afghan-withdrawal.html

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A former defence official in regular contact with senior White House aides suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned administration staffers because they were 'too afraid' of challenging Mr Biden and his National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan.


Why am I not surprised.

Where are the mass resignations from military leaders and top admin. officials?

Our leadership in DC is made up of power hungry cowards who could careless about the consequences of their decisions. They have no core principals other than self empowerment.

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Joe Biden is the country club pr*ck.

He does what he wants.

You do what you're told.

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A former defence official in regular contact with senior White House aides suggested that there was not much pushback from concerned administration staffers because they were 'too afraid' of challenging Mr Biden and his National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan.

Groupthink is the antithesis of diversity.

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Report: White House Staff ‘Afraid’ to Tell Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan ‘They’re Wrong’

White House staff members were reportedly “too afraid” over the weekend to tell President Joe Biden and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan “they’re wrong” about the Afghan extraction operation.

“People are simply too afraid to tell Biden (and) Jake Sullivan (his National Security Adviser), they’re wrong. It’s one thing to crack down on leaks (as Mr Biden has done), it’s another thing to allow a mistake like this,” a former defense official, “who is in regular contact with senior White House aides,” told the Telegraph. “This White House is very disciplined, especially when it comes to leaks and such. But the downside of discipline is if you’re running things like an autocracy, and you broker no dissent internally, that’s not what the purpose of a White House staff is.”

Another individual “close to the administration” told the Telegraph he asked Biden, “without success,” to reconsider and “to keep open Bagram Air Base, which has more runways than Hamid Karzai International Airport and has long been the beating heart of American operations in Afghanistan.”

Bagram Air Base was reportedly evacuated by the military due to Biden’s order to withdraw troops down to the bare minimum. Manning the airbase was, therefore, untenable.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/23/white-house-staff-afraid-tell-joe-biden-jake-sullivan-theyre-wrong/

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Report: White House Staff ‘Afraid’ to Tell Joe Biden, Jake Sullivan ‘They’re Wrong’

White House staff members were reportedly “too afraid” over the weekend to tell President Joe Biden and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan “they’re wrong” about the Afghan extraction operation.

“People are simply too afraid to tell Biden (and) Jake Sullivan (his National Security Adviser), they’re wrong. It’s one thing to crack down on leaks (as Mr Biden has done), it’s another thing to allow a mistake like this,” a former defense official, “who is in regular contact with senior White House aides,” told the Telegraph. “This White House is very disciplined, especially when it comes to leaks and such. But the downside of discipline is if you’re running things like an autocracy, and you broker no dissent internally, that’s not what the purpose of a White House staff is.”

Another individual “close to the administration” told the Telegraph he asked Biden, “without success,” to reconsider and “to keep open Bagram Air Base, which has more runways than Hamid Karzai International Airport and has long been the beating heart of American operations in Afghanistan.”

Bagram Air Base was reportedly evacuated by the military due to Biden’s order to withdraw troops down to the bare minimum. Manning the airbase was, therefore, untenable.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/23/white-house-staff-afraid-tell-joe-biden-jake-sullivan-theyre-wrong/

If that's true, then just one more reason to miss President Trump's messier management style.  At least people were apparently not afraid to tell President Trump what they thought (heck, some of them even went so far as to publish what they claimed they'd been telling him).

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Is it a shock that one of the people who gave us Benghazi  is now giving us Kabul?  Jake Sullivan deserves to be fired, and never should have been hired.  Has he ever been right about anything?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Sullivan

Jacob Jeremiah Sullivan (born November 28, 1976) is an American political advisor who serves as the United States National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden. He was previously a senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign and her deputy chief of staff at the Department of State when she was Secretary of State. Sullivan was also a senior advisor to the U.S. government for the Iran nuclear negotiations and a visiting professor at Yale Law School.