Author: Daniel Chaitin
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US diplomats sent memo urging swift evacuation of Afghan allies weeks before Taliban takeover
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U.S. diplomats issued an internal memo last month urging top State Department officials to take urgent action with evacuations as the Aug. 31 military withdrawal deadline approached. The cable warning of the possible fall of Kabul soon after the troop pullout, sent through the agency’s confidential dissent channel on July 13, pressed the Biden administration…
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Texts show US diplomat denouncing ‘crazy’ Trump plan on Ukraine
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Text messages released by House Democrats show that a top U.S. diplomat warned a Trump appointee that it was “crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign” from Ukraine. The text messages, made public late Thursday, are largely those sent by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, former State Department…
