Biden said in an interview that he rejects the results of an Army investigation that reportedly outlines his administration's failure to adequately prepare for and respond to the Taliban's takeover in Afghanistan.
and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, found that U.S. military leaders' attempts to plan evacuations of embassy personnel and Afghan allies were met with resistance in the White House and State Department.In a clip of his exclusive sitdown interview with Lester Holt, Biden replied in the negative when asked if his administration was in denial about the situation leading up to the fall of Afghanistan.
"We would have to significantly increase the number of troops and we're back in this war of attrition," he said. "And so this is a much wiser thing to do."Senior Biden administration officials were still discussing and assigning basic actions involved in civilian evacuation the day before Kabul fell, according tohours before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan's capital.
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