other operations like this. as we always do, senator, we re going to take a hard look at ourselves in terms of what we did over the last 20 years, what worked, what didn t work and we re going to learn from those lessons and make sure we incorporate that into our planning and our strategic assessment going forward. thank you. senator kramer, please? thank you for your service and being here and god bless the men and women under your command. general mckenzie, is it true that u.s. forced hat the isis-k under surveillance before august 25th and could have struck them before the deadly attacks at kabul, but were not given the authority to strike? no, that s not true. i noticed the president was quick to take a victory lap
0 why wasn t action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. i don t mean to interrupt you, but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment, because even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces, you re expecting the ghani government to remain. in december of 2019, the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately express
0 retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary i don t mean to interrupt but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you are still encouraging the afghan special forces, you are expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the a
0 thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary, i don t mean to interrupt you but my time is elapsing. so this gets to the overestimation that i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces. you re expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army a
and the prosecutions are for the people who went, but they re not looking at exactly what donald trump s role was, exactly what he was doing during those hours, exactly why help didn t come sooner. don t you want to know those answers? well, no, there are a lot of unanswered questions, but i m confident we re going to get the answers to those questions. and whether it s a subcommittee or a committee in the house or the senate, eventually, we will get all of that information, and i frankly have no doubts. since the 2020 election, 27 states, mostly led by republican state legislatures, are in the process of passing more restrictive voting rights voting laws. are those helpful or harmful? well, you know, each state goes through this after an election. i served in the ohio state house for six years in the 80s and typically after an election, you go look at what worked, what didn t work as well, what needed to be changed, but typically, in ohio anyway, those many changes