Afghanistan
Wednesday follow-ups
You may remember Janet Mello, a civilian employee at Fr. Sam at San Antonio who was accused of fraudulently scamming the military out of $109,000,000. A Texas woman who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing nearly $109 million from a youth development program for children of military families and using it to fund an extravagant […]
Valor Friday
Staff Sergeant Michael Ollis of Staten Island, NY was on his last day in Afghanistan. It was his third combat deployment, and he was only 24 years old. He’d enlisted seven years prior in the Army infantry, getting his parents’ permission to enlist at 17. Soon after he saw Iraq and then Afghanistan, with this […]
CNN Faces Defamation Lawsuit Over Afghan Evac
CNN To Face Defamation Case In Florida Over Alleged False Narrative About Afghanistan Evacuations A Florida appeals court Wednesday said a security consultant could pursue a punitive damages claim against CNN in a defamation and trade-libel lawsuit stemming from the evacuation of Afghan citizens as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan. A three-judge panel of […]
Bowe Bergdahl’s conviction dismissal to be considered by US Appeals Court
A U.S. District Court Judge dismissed the conviction of Bowe Bergdahl. The Justice Department appealed this dismissal at the U.S. Court of Appeals at the District of Columbia. The reason for the conviction dismissal involved an argument that the presiding judge for the original trial had a “conflict of interest”. Bergdahl’s lawyers also argued that […]
Pentagon’s Abby Gate Review Challenged By Video Evidence
Exclusive: New evidence challenges the Pentagon’s account of a horrific attack as the US withdrew from Afghanistan Nick Paton Walsh Mick Krever New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from […]
CENTCOM Finds Abby Gate Bombing “Not Preventable”
Review says Abbey Gate bombing wasn’t preventable By Lolita C. Baldor and Farnoush Amiri WASHINGTON (AP) — The suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed U.S. troops and Afghans in August 2021 was not preventable, and the “bald man in black” spotted by U.S. service members the morning of the attack was not the […]
Milley, McKenzie Testify on A-Stan Debacle
Biden Foreign Policy These military leaders advised Biden against withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. What are they saying now? Story by Payton Davis Military leaders who advised President Joe Biden against the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan testified about it before Congress on Tuesday for the first time since their retirements. Former Joint Chiefs of Staff […]
Joe Biden believes that history books would positively see his Afghanistan withdrawal decision
According to a book written by Alexander Ward of Politico, Joe Biden believed that he made the right calls regarding the Afghanistan withdrawal. Mistakes of this nature that get negative attention increase the risk that those responsible for the scrutinized actions would submit a letter of resignation. None arrived related to the botched withdrawal. Biden […]
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