Date: November 29th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK
pretty sure DOD knew the media would have to find a way to report it somehow, but there's like a 5 day delay between the time the events was discovered and the time it was reported by the media. When has THAT ever happened?
That delay tells you there was a lot of fighting going on. There were Afghan dudes saying "John Kirby told us they were leaving, so we thought you knew too" to their CIA handlers. The CIA handlers needed to frame the story in a way that didn't make them look like the asses. But military times includes the quote from Kirby saying "we sure as shit told the Afghans all about it"
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/07/06/us-kept-exact-details-of-bagram-exit-from-afghan-commander-for-opsec-says-pentagon-spokesman/
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5804158&forum_id=2Reputation#49470684)