The existence of the declassified reports contradict claims made Friday by White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who has joined President Biden and other administration officials in seeking to downplay the significance of related remarks made from senior U.S. commanders frustrated by how the withdrawal was handled.
, “if policymakers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground.”
"Our planning for the noncombatant evacuation operation began in April — a fact supported by these documents,” she said. Watson said that a claim by the Marine general in his interview with Army investigators that an NSC official said during an Aug. 6 meeting that if they needed to carry out an evacuation operation, “we have failed" is inaccurate. But another administration official did say it, a second NSC official said.
The report also states that U.S. troops struggled in the bombing’s aftermath. There was a “severe failure” in patient administration and tracking, the report says, including one instance when a set of human remains and a patient in critical care were misidentified, resulting in the wrong name being reported to more senior commanders.“The discrepancy was discovered prior to [family] notification,” the report says.
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