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Now, for the Accountability

Now, for the Accountability

The CIA and FBI also need a reckoning now that Kabul is gone. Two new startling insider accounts offer a roadmap.

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Jeff Stein
Sep 02, 2021
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Hello darkness, my old friend. 

We’ve been here before, watching through our fingers as American troops flee from an ill-advised war or battles: Phnom Penh, Saigon, Mogadishu, Baghdad, Syria, now Kabul.  We’ve run out of guerrilla wars—for the moment, and that’s a good thing.

It’s all over but the shouting now, except in Afghanistan, where the executioner…

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