U.S. Govt's Crisis Response Director Resigned After Biden's State Dept Canceled 'Lifeline' Group Over Trump Links.

"In July, at Antony Blinken's State Department, bureaucratic decisions affecting the Afghan withdrawal, one insider said, were 'slightly more organized than a Choose Your Own Adventure novel'," the article begins, before detailing how newly minted Crisis and Contingency Response bureau director Dr. William Walters had resigned on July 9th of this year.

As the Taliban took Kabul, The National Pulse reported that a bureau green-lit by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Trump administration had been canceled by Biden's pick for the role, Anthony Blinken.

A week later, on August 19, State's Ned Price would tell reporters, in a sort of semantic jujitsu, that CCR was never actually created, which begs the question: Why have Price's colleagues at State been preparing to notify Congress of a decision to "Abolish" something that never existed?

The academic debate over CCR's existence obscures a far more elemental issue, which, at this date, remains unresolved: Why did Antony Blinken and his lieutenants rejigger and possibly degrade State's in-house crisis planning and response capabilities on the eve of ending the longest war in American history?

In May, while setting up to destroy the Trump-era plans for a formal response unit inside the State Department, Blinken told Vanity Fair the unit was a "Lifeline for the Department of State and the American people. Though perhaps lesser known outside of the Department, it's vital to our operations. That's because OpMed provides the platform and personnel to save American lives around the world, especially in times of crisis."

One source told Vanity Fair's Adam Ciralsky that the State Department was plagued by "Pathologic optimism." Other State Department sources said the problem was hubris.

So while the Taliban captured city upon city, and Team Biden began plans for the evacuation of U.S. troops, civilians, diplomats, and those eligible for Special Immigrant Visas, his State Department was hindering a potential response.
 

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