deteriorating situation and those briefings didn t go well. lawmakers were curious why administration had not an anticipated this rapid collapse and the timeline for the reconstituting of terrorists has moved up. does the white house look at this as an intelligence failure or logistics failure? what are they saying? this was not an intelligence failure per se. the intelligence was there. they knew based on the assessments the taliban was aiming for a complete military takeover of the country. cnn reported these intel assessments were showing they were not serious about peace talks. they were aiming to fully control the government no matter whether the u.s. statement or when. that was their objective. in addition, it has always been intel assessments over the last couple months and years even that a full withdrawal of u.s. troops would per sip tate the
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across afghanistan. it s truly heartbreaking to see, to see in so many ways so much undone, so many people harmed, there has been hangings. there has been, you know, reports of, you know, of women and girls forced into, i mean, effectively these brutal situations with taliban. it is and the takeover out kaft top is heartbreaking, gut wrenching and heartbreaking and so many of us are hearing from the interpreters we worked with, the aid workers, all of the staff who were essential to our work in afghanistan. we could not have done any job in afghanistan without dedicated local men and women who also
going to have to run things on a very decentralized basis and they ve got some competitive factions within the taliban movement, but you re quite right to site tcite the fact the concern is acting as a harbor, a haven for terrorist groups such as alibi d qaeda and isis and t watch this from afar and pr provided a quit warning. that was analyst james clapper. he served as the director of national intelligence in the obama administration. right now, insterpreters ar among the most vulnerable afghans. they helped american forces for decades and fearing for their lives under taliban control. more of that ahead.
in place, more anticipation for how quickly this could play out so that you wouldn t have to have the u.s. personnel evacuate to the airport and wouldn t have take away flights from afghan, allies to give them to u.s. personnel? why wasn t there a better plan in place for this? what i say this is, if we get the american citizens out with nobody being harmed, if we get our afghan allies out without any of them being harmed or shot at or killed then i think that s still what the focus was. so we have to bring all of those securities back in just in case the taliban was lying and they tried to do something that would cause the death or attack of so we got to prevent the measures in place. put them on the ground. let the taliban know if they do something, there is going to be