#shorts On 4/6/2023, a reporter asked NSC Spox John Kirby, “I’m curious if there was a moment during the Afghanistan withdrawal that the President lost confidence in the assessments that were given to him by the intelligence community and lost confidence in the intelligence community itself, given that they failed to foresee how quickly the Taliban would advance and Kabul would fall.

MR. KIRBY: The President knows how hard people work across the administration …

Q No one doubts that they weren’t working hard. But their assessment was flawed, and they failed in that assessment. Has anyone been held accountable for giving the President a wrong view —

MR. KIRBY: I don’t —

Q — about how things were turning out on the ground?

MR. KIRBY: … But it doesn’t mean that people weren’t trying and doing their best effort to understand that. But intelligence, getting it right every single time — man, that’s — that’s a tough — that’s a tough hill to climb.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/azQAK7GSYGA
accountable for giving President a wrong view?