Biden Admin Was Reportedly Set To Halt Trump-Era Program To Protect, Evacuate Threatened US Citizens As Taliban Rose To Power
District of Columbia | August 19, 2021
President Joe Biden’s State Department reportedly moved in June to abolish a crisis response office developed in order to help Americans evacuate dangerous foreign countries, as the Taliban was beginning to capture territory in Afghanistan. An internal memo obtained by the Beacon and reported Wednesday announced the “discontinuation of the establishment, and termination of, the Contingency and Crisis Response Bureau (CCR).” A State Department spokesman told the Beacon the Biden administration did not abolish any program, as it “was never established in the first place.” The State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual reportedly listed the CCR as operative as recently as January. (Excerpts from the Daily Caller)