Washington, D.C. – The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a national embarrassment that left 13 Americans dead. Shortly after it happened, Cheri Beasley famously ran away from questions on Afghanistan and the President’s responsibility. She’s refused to hold Joe Biden accountable on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, just like she’s refused to hold him accountable on inflation, gas prices, the border crisis or any other issue.
Unlike Beasley, Congressman Ted Bud has never stopped his relentless pursuit of gaining more insight into the failures of that botched withdrawal in the hopes of stopping it from happening again:
Biden Admin Warned Not to Withhold After-Action Reports on Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
By Houston Keene
A Republican member of Congress is warning the Biden administration not to withhold the after-action reports on the president’s botched and deadly military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin calling on the Department of Defense (DOD) to release the reports on the Afghanistan withdrawal and not withhold them as the department was reportedly weighing.
“The Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan cost the lives of 13 Marines, countless Afghan civilian allies, and it put American weakness on full display,” Budd told Fox News Digital in a Tuesday statement.
“The American people deserve the full truth about what went wrong last year,” the North Carolina Republican continued. “That’s why I’m urging Secretary Austin to make these after-action reports public as soon as possible.”
“There must not be any slow-walking or whitewashing of this administration’s handling of the withdrawal,” he added. “Now is the time for transparency and accountability, not bureaucratic politics.”
It was reported the Biden administration is weighing withholding the Afghanistan after-action reports that would likely be politically damaging to Democrats ahead of a tough midterm.
In the letter exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, Budd that it “has been 11 months since the Biden Administration mismanaged the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan” and essential questions from the pullout “have been unanswered, and Department of Defense (DOD) leadership has offered little insight to the public into how failures in intelligence and execution occurred.”
Budd called on Austin to “communicate to the American people how those painful experiences can inform and improve future decision-making and strategic planning.”
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