Commander in Charge of Kabul Evacuation Blasts Bidens Over Secret Evacuation Favors: 'Distraction' from Mission – Report

The withdrawal of U.S. forces from 🇦🇫Afghanistan was a chaotic disaster that left American citizens and foreign allies stranded in the country — and now there’s another insight into why that happened.

Rear Adm. Peter Vasely testified that the evacuation was impeded as “everyone from the White House down with a new flavor of the day for prioritization” bombarded the U.S. operations center in Kabul with requests for special favors, according to The Washington Post.

Vasely, the top U.S. commander in Kabul as U.S. forces abruptly pulled out in time for President 👤Joe Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline, shared this in sworn statements during an Army investigation into the Aug. 26 bombing of the Kabul airport, according to the report.

The suicide bombing killed 13 U.S. service members and more than a hundred Afghan civilians days before the deadline and further hampered evacuation efforts.

At the time, officials on the ground in Kabul were coordinating a systematic evacuation, prioritizing American citizens and those with permanent resident status followed by Afghans who cooperated with the war effort.

Instead, they were stuck fielding text messages, phone calls and emails by the thousands from the White House, Congress, media outlets,