Officials from Biden’s office recently instructed federal agencies to delete formal reports of any military equipment delivered to the Afghans from all public websites:
If you delete the data from the public record, maybe people will begin to think it didn’t happen.
Biden Administration Erased Afghan Weapons Reports From Federal Websites https://t.co/cpKFQw7GEW
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 1, 2021
Here’s more:
FORBES – According to an admission obtained from the State Department, Biden officials recently directed federal agencies to scrub their websites of official reports detailing the $82.9 billion in military equipment and training provided to the Afghan security forces since 2001.
The scrubbed audits and reports included detailed accounting of what the U.S. had provided to Afghan forces, down to the number of night vision devices, hand grenades, Black Hawk helicopters, and armored vehicles.
Reports further quantified 208 aircraft and helicopters; 75,000 war vehicles – including 22 Humvees, 50,000 tactical vehicles and nearly 1,000 mine resistant vehicles; and 600,000 weapons – including 350,000 M4 and M16 rifles, 60,000 machine guns, and 25,000 grenade launchers.
The State Department admitted to removing the reports but justified the move as a way to protect Afghan allies. According to a spokesperson:
“The safety of our Afghan contacts is of utmost importance to us. The State Department advised other federal agencies of to [sic] review their web properties for content that highlights cooperation/participation between an Afghan citizen and the USG or a USG partner and remove from public view if it poses a security risk.”
It’s worth noting that the Biden administration already put these partners at risk when officials provided lists of Afghan nationals to the Taliban in a misguided attempt to clear them for evacuation. The Taliban, a known terrorist organization with a history of murdering Afghan citizens working alongside U.S. forces, should never have been trusted with those names.
It appears that they were attempting to conceal it, as DSouza argues above, so that the American people would not be aware of how awful Biden’s decision to enable the Taliban to have all of this weaponry was.
But the harm has been done; the Taliban now possess all of these weapons, and Biden has further limited the military’s hands by leaving American citizens stranded in Afghanistan. If they start hitting the equipment right now, the Taliban will almost certainly kidnap Americans. It’s a pure tragedy how badly Biden has messed up the entire thing.
As a reminder of what all they got….
