Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@b_momani @DemFromCT and yet the people criticizing Biden the loudest told us something totally different for 20 years. Weird. — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@mehdirhasan I'd vote for white supremacy being worse — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@theHessam compelling thread — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@RadioFreeTom @LadyGlencora https://t.co/OPpCT3kfri — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@AmyMcGrathKY beautifully put — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

The Washington Post evacuates Afghan employees and family members from Taliban-held Kabul .. thank God https://t.co/LMORwZGV9u — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@EvelynNFarkas YES — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

RT @jbendery: Condoleezza Rice, who was GWB's national security advisor from 2001-2005 and publicly advocated the 2003 invasion of Iraq, ha… — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@BillKristol their is conversation going on between commanders and Taliban accd to John Kirby and Jake Sullivan at briefings today. I hope they know how to leverage threats — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

I understand that those who claimed the Afghan forces were getting better have a stake in the "morale killing" narrative. In fact, they never improved and they cut deals 18 mos ago — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

notion the admin is blaming victims is ridiculous. The victims are the women and children. It is a true assessment: There is no Afg army or govt. That's reality. The IG report is clear a good deal of blame is in 20 yrs of wasted training. Those who said they were improving lied. — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

RT @NPRinskeep: Worth noting that this week's operation--moving thousands of troops in days; supplying them far from base; airlifting thous… — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@PeteButtigieg WOW! Mazel tov! — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@gtconway3d Plus: The people who knew better dissembled. And there was no "morale collapse" - the deals were cut and bribes taken for 18 months. Authors of the "morale collapse" have zero factual evidence. There is evidence of betrayal by Afghan leadership. — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@mattyglesias whenever the evacuation began the panic would begin - at least we had 6000 troops close by by mid August — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@KevinPWalling @mattcorridoni @JakeAuch @Slate and the military had been cutting deals for 18 months. — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

Flights resume from Kabul airport... more please, quicker https://t.co/XtmeFOYGfp — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

Predictably, the xenophobic MAGA crowd is now screaming “invasion” when it comes to making good on our promises to take in refugees. Same thing happened after Vietnam. Look how Ford handled it. https://t.co/5n2ktlp3PZ — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@ProfLupton Brava — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@Morning_Joe You know nearly every journalist reporting on this was misled repeatedly by military and political leaders about progress in Afghan army. Why don't they go back and ask why?? They were snowed just like 3 presidents — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@Morning_Joe every guest who had anything to do with US policy needs to be asked: Did you deceive the public about progress? If not, were you uninformed? It's one or the other cause they've been lying for 20 years — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

RT @igorbobic: Inhofe, Cassidy, & Murkowski signed on to this https://t.co/kbeKJtdFyF — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

How the Afghan Army Collapsed Under the Taliban’s Pressure<-- this and their leaders cut deals over the last *18 MONTHS * https://t.co/4OcKkrE75H https://t.co/kUT0UbgF5N via @CFR_org — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@McFaul that's what Craig Whitlock's reporting suggests: https://t.co/4OcKkrE75H — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@RadioFreeTom that's in there too- i write about NSC role in creating crazy excuses — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

We deserve to know who was deliberately misleading and who was merely obtuse. It won’t prevent future debacles, but it might help us catch on quicker when we’re being misled. — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

Biden, at least, deserves credit for his perception and stark candor. If other presidents grasped what was really going on, they did not have the wherewithal to blow the whistle on a war conducted under a blizzard of false assessments — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

@StuPolitics Funny but his boss set this in motion — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

He wasn’t being discourteous to the Afghan military or blame-casting when he told Americans on Monday that the Afghan army lacked the will to fight. He was treating Americans like adults deserving of the unvarnished truth. — PolitiTweet.org

Jennifer "Pro-privacy" Rubin @JRubinBlogger

And if that is not enough to make one’s blood boil, the Afghans were cutting deals — taking bribes, really — to capitulate as soon as we were gone. This went on for 18 months. It is mind-boggling that U.S. intelligence and military personnel were unaware https://t.co/8Jzqmky2Fe — PolitiTweet.org