Biden Officials Gave the Names of Americans and Afghan Allies Trying to Evacuate to the Taliban

The news comes just hours after two Islamic State suicide bombers detonated in two locations near the airport, killing at least 70 people, including eleven U.S. Marines, and one Navy medic, and wounding dozens more.

This collaboration with the Taliban was reportedly meant to expedite the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban takeover of the country.

But the decision to provide specific names to the Taliban, which has a history of brutally murdering Afghans who collaborated with the U.S. and other coalition forces during the conflict, has angered lawmakers and military officials.

“Basically, they just put all those Afghans on a kill list,” said one defense official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic. “It’s just appalling and shocking and makes you feel unclean.”

A spokesperson for U.S. Central Command declined to comment.

The issue came up during a classified briefing on Capitol Hill earlier this week, which turned contentious after top Biden administration officials defended their close coordination with the Taliban. Biden officials contended that it was the best way to keep Americans and Afghans safe and prevent a shooting war between Taliban fighters and the thousands of U.S. troops stationed at the airport.

In the wake of the debacle in Afghanistan, White House insiders are leaking to the media that Biden’s staffers don’t have the courage to tell him and his and incompetent National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan that their foreign policy decisions are wrong.

“People are simply too afraid to tell Biden (and) Jake Sullivan (his National Security Adviser), they’re wrong. It’s one thing to crack down on leaks (as Mr. Biden has done), it’s another thing to allow a mistake like this,” a former defense official, “who is in regular contact with senior White House aides,” told the Telegraph.

“This White House is very disciplined, especially when it comes to leaks and such. But the downside of discipline is if you’re running things like an autocracy, and you broker no dissent internally, that’s not what the purpose of a White House staff is,” the report added.

Another individual “close to the administration” told the Telegraph he asked Biden, “without success,” to reconsider and “to keep open Bagram Air Base, which has more runways than Hamid Karzai International Airport and has long been the beating heart of American operations in Afghanistan.”

Multiple Republican House members, and at least one senator has called on Joe Biden to step down over his lethal bungling of the crisis in Afghanistan.