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Former CIA officer: US intelligence 'profoundly degraded' by quick pullout

2021-08-25 | 🔗
Bryan Dean Wright says that intelligence and military leaders are now being looked at as a ‘national disgrace’
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Brian seventeen minutes before the top Brian seventeen minutes before the top of the hour Fox NEWS confirming William Burns secretly met with the leader of the Taliban in Kabul on Monday, as evacuation efforts intensify under a quick approaching deadline that Joe Biden put on himself and the Taliban want him to hold to it our next guest. We have just lost for a second okay. We have got him now. Our next guest is a former CIA officer and says the: u DOT. S has now been reduced to begging extremists. To do us a favor, Bryan Dean Wright is back Brian. Can you hear me, I sure, can good morning Brian. Sadly the news that reporter was one hundred percent accurate. The CIA director threw a hail Mary, your words to meet with a guy that the CIA arrested eleven years ago, bar door high ranking official for the government. What does it mean for the rank and file like you, its dispiriting im, talking to folks who are in the building recently left. Everybody is absolutely outraged at what has happened per the universal belief that we
should have gotten out. The question is how, of course, I think lots of smart people are saying that, over and over and over again, but for people who signed up to serve their nation. They are not looking at their commander in chief as a national disgrace as a national nightmare, I mean we went to Afghanistan as a CIA director days ago, and we begged the people we have been bombing for twenty years. Religious extremist can do you us a quick favor. We had nothing to offer them military equipment. Were we going to give them planes and helicopters? We already left that behind didnt we money there is not going to be money either. China is going to take care of that. They will be mining, the hills of Afghanistan. Soon we didnt have much of anything other than what we have heard from the Biden administration, which is this constant plea to the Taliban dont. You want to be part of the western world and embrace. If and your international reputation come on these people, they Fay folks off of buildings and kill women for nothing right.
This is not a group of people who are interested in the west. Their whole ideology is based on destroying the west. So im not sure what the CIA director thought he was going to get out of this, but he got nothing. Brian Brian, its been revealed, multiple CIA bases. Over the weekend, a lot of cias were abandoned over the weekend the White House was not responsive seems they might have solved that problem. Thankfully, can you tell me in Laymans terms what we lost in terms of intelligence capabilities and how the over the horizon option is not an option in the hills of Afghanistan, its been incredibly degraded and, I think, thats, the constant thing im hearing from folks who I have worked with, who are saying look by the way that we pulled out how quickly it happened very public reports now, starting back in July, the opportunity to set up those continuing operations was profoundly degraded. So now off
group of extremists running the country once again who are going to be open and amenable to attacks on western interest directly in the United States, Europe, a country we can no longer get the pulse on. What is hang, we now face a more dangerous world than ever. Certainly since the end of the Vietnam WAR, Brian, you guys could call in your own drone strikes. You had your own intelligence apparatus can actually execute missions. You dont publicize it and put out press releases thats what you were doing killing terrorists not trying to spread democracy thats what people amen Brian thats, what people dont fully understand that we lost, but you do to have William Burns meet with the former prisoner, is humiliating. So is so much of this operation.
Transcript generated on 2021-09-02.