off the taliban, if the u.s. withdrew and our sources say in recent weeks cia assessments of the afghan military were becoming more and more bleak. afghan solders stopped guarding the roads to kabul. this reporting was caveated as all intelligence is. it s not a crystal ball. as one congressional source said to me, was this predicted, no, but it was always known to be within the range of possibility s so why did it end in chaos? many officials told us the military withdraw american troops much faster than the state department, the cia expected and it wasn t well coordinated. so once president biden ordered the military to get out against their advice, they get out fast, evacuating bagram airbase in the dead of night, last month as richard reported on so well and that was a powerful psychological blow to afghan forces, who were already seeing the writing on the wall. the taliban, meanwhile had been
i covered an incident where three afghan solders who were here for training, they left the air force base, they were found trying to enter canada through the border point. at that time, i talked to the then head of the massachusetts state police and we went through the vetting that occurs for these people to, you know, not only in the weathhether theye from the middle east or afghanistan, but i think to pete s point, the vetting that occurs by the u.s. military here. this is an important reason why we don t want to jump to terrorism. of course it could certainly be a concern. but we don t want to jump to terrorism at this point because of the background vetting that s under way. we re trying to go through local pilot records. we heard at that press conference that this person was involved in training in aviation. that s something that we re going to look in both faa records there to see if this