and lethal terrorist threat. in a span of two days from the 13th to the 15th of august, we went from working alongside a democratically elected, long-time partner government to coordinating warily with a long-time enemy. we operated in a deeply dangerous environment and it proved a lesson in pragmatism and professionalism. we learned a lot of other lessons, too. about how to turn an air force base to an international airport overnight. how to rapidly screen, process and manifest large numbers of people. nothing like this has ever been done before and no other military in the world could have pulled it off and i think that s crucial. now i know that members of this committee will have questions on many things such as why we turned over bagram airfield and how real is our over the horizon capability and why didn t we start evacuations sooner and why didn t we stay
in a span of just two days, from the 13th to the 15th of august, we went from working alongside a democratically elected longtime partner government to coordinating warily with a longtime enemy. we operated in a deeply dangerous environment. and it proved a lesson in pragmatism and professionalism. we learned a lot of other lessons, too. about how to turn an air force base in qatar into an international airport overnight. and how to rapidly screen, process, and manifest large numbers of people. nothing like this has ever been done before and no other military in the world could have pulled it off. and i think that is crucial. now, i know that members of this committee will have questions on many things, such as why we turned over bagram airfield and how real is our over the horizon capability. and why didn t they start evacuations sooner. and why didn t we stay longer to get more people out?
we want to explore that terrible drone strike in which 10 innocent civilians were killed because that reflects going forward in the future exactly how limited our options are for what president biden calls the so-called over the horizon capability. more along the lines of over the rainbow because our actions are so limited in afghanistan to protect this country. finally we want to talk about the afghans we did get out. we know we left behind the vast majority to use the biden administration s erms of who were approved to come and afghans committing assaults in army bases in america against american troop and what is the plan to stop that in the future. bill: this hearing could go for days. dana: we ll be paying attention and you ll be part of the question. we want to talk about that and want to get your take on one other thing. a development overnight on the big spending bills that the democrats want to push forward and the big ambitious plans that president biden had in
children. here is what they said about that strike initially. our over the horizon counter terrorism capability was proven out. they identified the target, they took the target out and they are now in the process of identifying further targets to action. the isis targets that were taken out involved two individuals who were significant planners and facilitators for isis-k. the fact we ve had two successful strike tells you our over the horizon capacity is working. we had good intelligence that isis-k was preparing a specific type vehicle and specific location. dana: the administration maintains over the horizon capability is sufficient. what say you? the only thing those strikes proved is their over the horizon capability was a complete and utter failure. the strikes need to be
civilians were killed in afghanistan. they admitted it was a non-success. how dare you even use the word success when civilians are killed. how dare you lie to us and give us your nonsense about this over the horizon capabilities in anti-terrorism. i may not be in the military but even i know you need assets on the dwrownds and signal capability to carry out a successful strike. you couldn t do a drone strike with the cia on the ground, now president biden thinks he s got over the horizon capability with know one on the ground. your excuse for killing 10 civilians? we did not have the luxury of time. we did not have luxury of time to develop pattern of life. we struck under the theory of reasonable certainty. judge jeanine: you are about to