In a Friday letter to President Biden, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said that handing over the names of American citizens and Afghan allies to the Taliban was gifting them a “powerful tool in their ongoing ‘revenge killings’.
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Former Trump administration National Security Adviser John Bolton said Friday on CNN that former President Donald Trump’s “mistake” of negotiation with the Taliban was what led to the unfolding chaos in Afghanistan as the United States withdraws.
The United States military has carried out a drone strike against an alleged ISIS-K “planner” following a suicide bombing in Kabul that killed 13 American soldiers and at least 70 Afghans.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul issued a second alert to Americans on Friday, advising them not to travel to the airport and to avoid airport gates due to “security threats” in Afghanistan.
‘I can’t wait for the rest of our lives together’
‘They will always be watched’
The suicide bombings in Afghanistan may have been the worst events for U.S strategic interests since Pearl Harbor, Sebastian Gorka said.
Those decisions include using billions of dollars of federal relief money in the budget and signing a bill to expand health care to undocumented workers.
Sen. Ted Cruz had stern warnings for the Biden administration Friday over its handling of the ensuing Afghanistan crisis, arguing the United States’ executive leadership is opening the door to additional terror attacks at home and abroad.
The Taliban’s self-described “chief of security” in Kabul, Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, was designated as a terrorist in 2008 by the U.S. government, which offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest.
‘We are actively discussing’
President Biden’s approval rating is now under water, RealClearPolitics’ Friday average showed.
Two of Kennedy’s sons, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Douglas Kennedy, expressed support for Sirhan.
“Rifling through the call logs of your colleagues would depart from more than 230 years of Congressional oversight,” Banks wrote.
‘I heard this firsthand’
The Michigan congressman and Army veteran talks to National Review.
‘I did you a big favor getting rid of all this stuff’
‘Because there is cancel culture’
‘Hard-won settlement’
Kamala Harris returned to the U.S. on Thursday, landing in Hawaii after her trip to Singapore and Vietnam. But the vice president ignored reporters’ questions – whether about Afghanistan or other topics – as she got off Air Force Two for a stop at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
BEDMINSTER, New Jersey — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that his successor President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the “single most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
During an appearance on FNC’s “Hannity” on Thursday, former President Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor, called the move by the Biden administration to withdraw military forces before evacuating non-military personnel the “dumbest move” in perhaps the history of the country.
A federal judge in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday issued an injunction on Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order targeting the transport of illegal immigrants.
Sirhan Sirhan faces his 16th parole hearing Friday for fatally shooting U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and for the first time no prosecutor will be there to argue he should be kept behind bars.
U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, a freshman Republican from North Carolina, is calling on Vice President Kamala Harris to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove President Biden from office following the deadly, botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
President Biden’s remarks following deadly terror attacks at Kabul’s airport suggested U.S. activities in Afghanistan could continue beyond the Aug. 31 deadline for a permanent withdrawal of U.S. troops, raising further questions about what the administration sees as the current parameters of its mission.
