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Inside the Biden administration’s indifference towards rescuing Americans from Afghanistan

7 February 2024

9:14 AM

7 February 2024

9:14 AM

At the time of the Afghanistan withdrawal, Biden administration officials said behind closed doors that secretary of state Antony Blinken and national security advisor Jake Sullivan “don’t give a fuck” about rescuing Americans from the clutches of the Taliban.

The admission came on a late August 2021 phone call held between the Department of Defense and congressional Democrats, based on The Spectator’s review of contemporaneous text messages. During

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