Fact checking Psaki's recent statement.

[usmcstinger]

Just to follow-up on this: Obviously getting them through and getting them to the airport is the challenge, as everyone else here has noted, but the administration is left to negotiate with the Taliban, including one of the commandos who was released from Guantanamo Bay as part of the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap when President Biden was Vice President. How does he feel about that? Does he have any regrets? And how is he — how’s he digesting that?
Psaki “I would also note that in prior negotiations and commitments made during the Trump administration, there were thousands of individuals who were released. So, our focus, right now, is on, again, not taking the Taliban’s word for it. “
As written in the Washington Post: By Missy Ryan and Anne Gearan
July 19, 2021 at 3:56 p.m.
“The Trump administration transferred just one prisoner, a man who officials moved to his native Saudi Arabia so he could serve out his sentence there. Psaki did not tell the truth.

 

[excalibur]

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

Just to follow-up on this: Obviously getting them through and getting them to the airport is the challenge, as everyone else here has noted, but the administration is left to negotiate with the Taliban, including one of the commandos who was released from Guantanamo Bay as part of the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap when President Biden was Vice President. How does he feel about that? Does he have any regrets? And how is he — how’s he digesting that?
Psaki “I would also note that in prior negotiations and commitments made during the Trump administration, there were thousands of individuals who were released. So, our focus, right now, is on, again, not taking the Taliban’s word for it. “
As written in the Washington Post: By Missy Ryan and Anne Gearan
July 19, 2021 at 3:56 p.m.
“The Trump administration transferred just one prisoner, a man who officials moved to his native Saudi Arabia so he could serve out his sentence there. Psaki did not tell the truth.

wyeho?

 

[Concerned American]

wyeho?

I've seen you post this before--please pardon my ignorance, but what does it mean?

 

[struth]

Just to follow-up on this: Obviously getting them through and getting them to the airport is the challenge, as everyone else here has noted, but the administration is left to negotiate with the Taliban, including one of the commandos who was released from Guantanamo Bay as part of the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap when President Biden was Vice President. How does he feel about that? Does he have any regrets? And how is he — how’s he digesting that?
Psaki “I would also note that in prior negotiations and commitments made during the Trump administration, there were thousands of individuals who were released. So, our focus, right now, is on, again, not taking the Taliban’s word for it. “
As written in the Washington Post: By Missy Ryan and Anne Gearan
July 19, 2021 at 3:56 p.m.
“The Trump administration transferred just one prisoner, a man who officials moved to his native Saudi Arabia so he could serve out his sentence there. Psaki did not tell the truth.

thanks. the propagandist machine is running overtime after this crisis

it’s important the truth is made clear as they will continue to try and hide the truth and outright lie