NewsBusters: BOMBSHELL: Former Deputy SECDEF Claims Predator Drone Operator Ordered To STAND DOWN Against Kabul Airport Bomber
Univision aired a bombshell allegation in the midst of its coverage of the United States' disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.Per former Army Green Beret and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Roger Pardo-Maurer, the Department of Defense had knowledge of the homicide bomber at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, and scrambled a Predator drone only to order it to stand down as it locked on its target. Per Pardo-Maurer, the stand-down order was given in deference to negotiations with the Taliban.
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WNU Editor: Roger Pardo-Maurer is a former Obama defense official. I suspect that people that he still knows in the Department of Defense and elsewhere are talking to him. I would not be surprised if more leaks will be released in the coming days and weeks on the intelligence that was known about this bomber, and what action was planned to stop him if they knew he was a threat.
Giving this the 24 hour rule. Sincerely hope it’s not true.
ReplyDeleteBiden could not pull the trigger on Osama, so what makes anyone think he could pull the trigger on a suicide bomber about to kill marines?
ReplyDeleteI agree RussInSoCal
ReplyDeleteBut my gut is telling me that it is true,
ROE would not have permitted a drone strike in Kabul at that time.
After the suicide bombing the ROE was changed, hence the drone strike in Kabul last Friday.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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ReplyDeleteKinda hard to believe such a decision was made.