afghan partners. and you explicitly told the committee that in your professional opinion, you did not see saigon 1975 in afghanistan. so, i'm just right to figure out why we missed or from a public perception, it appears that we didn't anticipate the rapid fall of afghanistan and kabul and the rise of the taliban in the way we saw it play out on television. and what did we miss? >> i think, senator, we absolutely missed the rapid 11-day collapse of the afghan military, and the collapse of the government. i think there was a lot of intelligence that clearly indicated that after we withdrew, that it was a likely outcome of a collapse of the