When asked by Rogers, Milley was just unwilling to specifically say who decided to go from 2500 troops to 650:
"The decision was made in a national security consultative process, by the highest levels of our government."
Rogers: This was the State Department and the White House that caused this catastrophe, not the Defense Department.
Wilson: [Biden is responsible for] terrorists that are now crossing the southern border, to plan attacks on American neighborhoods.
Wilson: The war has moved from Afghanistan to American neighborhoods.
Turner to Milley: Those comments were in the press because that's where you put them.
The State Department is CIA.
Was it Pompeo that said it was an 'exercise'? I can't remember.
Garamendi: …the most awesome and successful evacuation of civilians ever in the history of this world.
Speier blaming President Trump in her first sentence spoken.
Hartzler: Is it true that the suicide bomber that attacked the Kabul airport on August 23rd was a CIA prisoner, at the Bagram airbase, that the Taliban released after the Biden Administration left Bagram in July?
Milley: I would never tip off any enemy to any kind of surprise thing we are going to do.
Scott: We have gotten no assistance from the State Department to move them [from Tajikistan]…We have people in Uzbekistan …the State Department ignored them.
Milley: The conditions could be set for a reconstitution of al-Qaeda or ISIS.
This hearing is about Afghanistan. Racist Representative Brown is worried about "white nationalism", 'systemic racism', and 'extremism' in the armed forces.
McKenzie: We knew the strike hit civilians within four or five hours after the strike occurred. We did not know the target of the strike was an error until some time later…took us a few days to run that down.
Gaetz to Milley: You spent more time with Bob Woodward on this book, than you spent analyzing the very likely prospect that the Afghanistan government was going to fall immediately to the Taliban.
Gaetz to Austin: …your former employer, Raytheon, ends up with a lot of money.
President Trump [2020]: We have more cases than anybody in the world, but why? Because we do more testing,