State Dept Contradicts Biden, Says Vast Majority Of Interpreters & Visa-Eligible Afghans Were “Left Behind”

A stunning new exposé in The Wall Street Journal contradicts just about everything the American public has been told over the past week about the supposed “extraordinary success” of America’s “largest airlift in history”.

“The US left behind the majority of Afghan interpreters and others who applied for visas to flee Afghanistan, a senior State Department official said on Wednesday,” according to the WSJ report, which emphasizes that “as many as 100,000 Afghans may be eligible for relocation” – but the vast majority of these were left behind.

Specifically the numbers relate to those local allies who qualified for the Special Immigrant Visa. The Pentagon as of last Friday said it up to that point it had been able to only get about 7,000 Special Immigrant Visa Afghans out.

But according to The Wall Street Journal:

Over 20,000 Afghans who had applied for the Special Immigrant Visa program remained in Afghanistan when Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, according to advocacy groups and congressional officials.

Including their family members, as many as 100,000 Afghans may be eligible for relocation.

The anonymous State Department official was asked to estimate how many remain trapped inside the country despite their eligibility based on a number of special visa programs: “I would say it’s the majority of them,” the official stated bluntly. “Just based on anecdotal information about the populations we were able to support.” – READ MORE