Deep State Turns on Biden, Leaks to NYT, WSJ

CLAY: We are breaking down this mess that continues to grow — a mushroom cloud, unfortunately — in Afghanistan. Will people be able to get out safely who are American citizens? We hope. We don’t know. There are a lot of them in incredible danger right now. And what you’re seeing happen rapidly, Buck Sexton, is the intelligence agencies are running, running from Joe Biden.

Front page headline: “Contradicting Biden, Reports Warned of Rapid Collapse,” and I’m reading from this article. This is the New York Times, by the way. “By July, many intelligence reports grew more pessimistic, questioning whether any Afghan security forces would muster serious resistance and whether the government could hold on…”

Generals and diplomats, according to a different —  Wall Street Journal front page which reads, “Biden Knew Risks of a Hasty Withdrawal”  — from the Wall Street Journal. Biden’s, quote, “decision to bring home U.S. troops, which was made against the recommendations of his top military generals and many diplomats, who warned that a hasty withdrawal would undermine security in Afghanistan, several administration and defense officials said.”

They also say, “In a series of meetings … military and intelligence officials told Mr. Biden that security was deteriorating in Afghanistan…” They said there was no safety and that they should not be pulling out. Buck, you worked in the CIA. This is getting worse and worse for Biden when the intelligence officials are going public through the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times front page and saying, “We told you not to do this, you imbecile.” They’re trying to wash their hands of it and dodge the blame.

BUCK: And remember, Biden was (impression), “I listen to the generals.”

CLAY: That’s right! Yes!

BUCK: You remember that one?

CLAY: He lied! Yes. Yes.

BUCK: “I’m gonna listen to the… (mumbling) I’m gonna listen to the science and the generals.” That’s what we were being told all the time. Now we find out, no, actually, he thinks he knows better on this one. Look, there is the decision overall to wind down this war and the way in which it is being wound down, so to speak, and there is no way around that latter part being a disaster at this point.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: As for the CIA/intelligence community —

CLAY: Does that surprise you to see all these leaks come out like this, this quickly?

BUCK: No, of course not. For the perception of the public to be… Remember, the bureaucracies think that presidents come and go; they are forever.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: That’s a line about the State Department, but it applies more generally to the intelligence community overall, and there are a lot of assessments that they do. It’s easy for them to go to a favored mouthpiece in the media and say, “Oh, we warned him,” right?

CLAY: “We told ’em!”

BUCK: Because at some point whether it’s the Iraq WMD situation, now this situation, so many other intelligence failures, the rise of ISIS, although Obama was ignoring that. But, anyway, the point being, the credibility of the intelligence community is already in tatters, in my mind, because of what happened with Russia collusion and their hand in all that against Trump, before which there was never any real accountability, although there was a Durham… We didn’t get to it yesterday.

CLAY: There’s a report that there may be something coming there.

BUCK: Something may be happening with Durham who I will say, people I know from prosecutors’ offices for many, many years say that he is dogged, nonpolitical, and doesn’t care, and he is kind of the honey badger of prosecutors, if you will. He’s gonna do it the way he’s gonna do it. So we could see it, although do not hold your breath.

Don’t take out your watch on that one. We could see something about Russia collusion. But the point here being, Clay, yeah, I mean, they’re looking at this now as Joe Biden decided that this was a Joe Biden decision, and they’re not about to allow the American people to think, at least across the board, that somehow they… ‘Cause if the CIA/NSA/17 (I think it is now) intel agencies missed this, you gotta ask them, “What would you say y’do here?”