0 retrograde our equipment and that was accomplished. general miller executed the plan in accordance with the plan. a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow the government to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security sources. so it was, the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there and in conjunction with that plan, we were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy. that was the plan, senator. but you didn t address the issue, you made, it was your plan, you acknowledged it was your plan and your plan said you would do all these things before we got our civilians out. when in the history of this country have we had the military say, have a plan we will take military out first before we take our civilians? i can t imagine that. when you say civilians, american citizens? american citizens, yeah. american citizens would come out once noncombatant evacuation is declared. u
debacle now sph. afghan political leadership and the incentive structure the united states and many of its international allies put in place, we setup an incentive structure that rewarded the most corrupt. and again, i beg to differ with you, tommy. a lot of us it s not in hindsight. a lot of us had been talking about pakistan and corruption for years. that interagency process sorry? i think what was lacking were the solutions. you know, it s not like they weren t i m sorry, tommy. the number of plans, the number of extremely explicit governance campaign plans that were put
Pentagon weighing how to help Afghans who aided US yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
oval office, the chief of staff, the president or some senior official placed that call immediately to omb to start that call. and i think this is just a fraction of the documents that we hope to see. and i think senator schumer, if he were able to get his hands on, we d start to fill out this picture of what exactly happened. we are looking at this email in the context of senator schumer s letter to his senate colleagues. what type of information, what type of documents does senator schumer belief might be offered that would change the contours of this impeachment inquiry? well, first of all we know that there is a series of communications that would go back and forth from the state department to the embassy in ukraine. we also know that in any kind of interagency process, which is what happened here, there would be communications between, let s say, the state department, omb, the department department, and the white house as well. and we also know from gordon sondland s testimony
inaccurate and that this hold had been announced before and it was all part of an interagency process. well, if that was the case, then why did michael duffey send another email on september 11th saying i m glad this issue is behind us ? when i read that, that indicated to me that he was aware at the time of how unusual all this was. david, congress didn t raise this, but your organization s reporting did suggest that the mere withholding of the aid may have been illegal. how so? yeah, well, there s something, an act, a 45-year-old law that s on the books that basically says, all right, if congress goes ahead and appropriates money, the executive branch, once it signs that law in whatever form it is, has to go ahead and spend that money. so, if you re withholding money that congress has said needs to be spent or is appropriated for a certain purpose and then the executive branch isn t doing it, well, that s a big problem, potentially, and it really kind of strikes at the heart of