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| | During any [[Democrat]] term in office; and in addition to funding the family of the President who appointed them; as long as the Secretary of State appropriately and adequately funds the members, families and friends of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then they are perceived to be doing their job correctly. The SoS keeps that institutional mechanism working, and in return the unilateral operations of the department are supported."<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/22/sunday-talks-secretary-of-state-anthony-blinken-gets-afghanistan-crisis-assist-from-chris-wallace/</ref>}} | | During any [[Democrat]] term in office; and in addition to funding the family of the President who appointed them; as long as the Secretary of State appropriately and adequately funds the members, families and friends of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, then they are perceived to be doing their job correctly. The SoS keeps that institutional mechanism working, and in return the unilateral operations of the department are supported."<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/22/sunday-talks-secretary-of-state-anthony-blinken-gets-afghanistan-crisis-assist-from-chris-wallace/</ref>}} |
| | During the [[Rape of Afghanistan]], with numerous public pronouncements from the [[Biden]] White House, State Department, Pentagon, and Kabul Embassy to contact the State Department for instructions and documents to exit [[Afghanistan]], the State Department's email inbox overflowed and nobody bothered to respond to frantic citizens and refugees wanting the flee the [[Taliban]] terror.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sorry-the-u-s-state-departments-afghan-evacuation-e-mailbox-is-full/</ref> | | During the [[Rape of Afghanistan]], with numerous public pronouncements from the [[Biden]] White House, State Department, Pentagon, and Kabul Embassy to contact the State Department for instructions and documents to exit [[Afghanistan]], the State Department's email inbox overflowed and nobody bothered to respond to frantic citizens and refugees wanting the flee the [[Taliban]] terror.<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/sorry-the-u-s-state-departments-afghan-evacuation-e-mailbox-is-full/</ref> |
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| | + | With 40,000 Americans stranded,<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/breaking-afghanistan-hannity-reports-10000-many-40000-americans-trapped-inside-afghanistan-taliban-blocking-access-airport-video/</ref> Blinken's State Department demanded $2,000 for a ride out of the country while Afghans rode for free.<ref>https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1428449620997414919</ref> The U.S. Embassy consular services department sent a document with instructions to assist Americans and eligible Afghans claiming Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) status. The document looks exactly like an approved VISA document except there is no filled in name, no serial number and no barcode. The document is easily able to be forged.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/21/u-s-embassy-in-kabul-sends-out-thousands-of-blank-visa-documents-which-are-easy-to-falsify-and-makes-things-worse/</ref> |
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| | + | American embassy staff in Afghanistan were apprised by the State Department to leave the embassy and make their way to Kabul airport. Staffers reported being jostled, hit, spat on and cursed at by Taliban fighters at checkpoints near the airport. Some staff members reported that they were almost separated from their children, while others collapsed in a crush of people and had to be taken to hospitals with injuries. Others said they had collapsed on the road because of heat exhaustion. “It would be better to die under the Taliban’s bullet” than face the crowds again, a staff member was quoted as saying in a State Department cable. “Happy to die here, but with dignity and pride," according to ''[[NBC News]]''.<ref>https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/afghan-staff-u-s-embassy-losing-faith-evacuation-efforts-diplomatic-n1277397</ref> A heart-wrenching audio clip of a stranded American woman in fear for her life was posted to social media.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/heartbreaking-audio-of-american-woman-trapped-in-afghanistan-begging-for-biden-to-help-her/</ref> |
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| | + | On August 25, 2021 the State Department and U.K. officials issued a warning to American and British citizens to leave the vicinity of the Kabul airport immediately.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/08/25/u-s-and-u-k-embassies-issue-a-security-alert-get-away-from-the-kabul-airport-leave-immediately-and-do-not-come/</ref> At least 24 students from [[San Diego]] school district and 16 parents had tickets to fly out but were not able to get to the airport.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students-from-cajon-valley-school-district-stranded-in-afghanistan?utm_id=36108&sfmc_id=4509190</ref> |
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