Top General Asked Point Blank If Attacks In Afghanistan Are Failure Of Leadership

thank you john thank you general so on despite numerous intelligence reports and warnings on on the 26th we had that tragic attack on on the airport 13 u.s service members were killed in addition to tens of afghan civilians again on the 29th in this strike another tragedy took place as you said 10 civilians were killed among them seven children is that a failure or of intelligence or leadership in afghanistan and what do you intend to do about that thank you well i will tell you so we had two events we had the attack at abby gate we had this uh and we had this strike you know the abbey gate attack you're you're in uh in combat with an enemy who is alive and has his own will and sometimes that enemy is gonna is gonna his plans are just gonna work you can't cover every eventuality all the time despite our very best efforts to do that and we took every precaution we could at abby gate in fact when we had when we had threats develop over the 48 hours that followed as i've noted we closed the gates in order to recognizing it would reduce our ability to bring people in but at the same time we thought there was the best thing we could do to actually reduce our attack surface if you will to protect our forces there are also a number of attacks that were thwarted uh these are two that you know about because they're high visibility and we're talking about them others were thwarted and did not occur so the silence of those attacks should mean something too unfortunately it's very difficult to prove the negative tony all right so tony capacio with bloomberg two quick questions are you going to release the report of investigation two in your fact gathering to what extent did you rely on the new york times's extensive video investigation and then talks with ngos or civilian eyewitnesses at the scene [Music] so repeat the first question again for me you'll be releasing the final report of investigation the final report of the report is a highly classified document there will be procedures that would have to be followed to declassify elements of that document if it were to be released and i'll just leave that i'll just leave that question there as we in fact worked our investigation we used all available sources of information to inform us as we went forward certainly that included some of the stuff the new york times did it also included our own extensive resources in this area which we looked at so we tried to go everywhere we could and not overlook anything as we sort of tried to build the picture alabama aid in the investigation or the fat gathering no thanks lucas general mckenzie

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Published: Sat Sep 18 2021