#shorts On 4/6/2023, CBS’s Ed O’Keefe blasted NSC spox John Kirby after the NSC released a report blaming Trump for Joe Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal.

The Biden National Security Council (NSC) released a shocking report on Holy blaming President Trump for the catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan. CBS’s Ed O’Keefe blasted Kirby for releasing the report right up against the Easter holiday. “…about 10 minutes before the briefing began, with little notice”: “It’s the very definition of a modern major holiday news dump…after months of requests,” he said.

A Reporter Calls Out John Kirby On A Blatant Holiday News Dump Of The Afghanistan Report
Reporter: So, John, thank you for doing this. But I think I speak on behalf of my colleagues in this room when we want the record to reflect that this was sent to us about 10 minutes before the briefing began with little notice, and it’s the very definition of a modern major holiday news dump. You’re releasing this at the beginning of the High Holidays and after months of requests from Republicans and the broader public. So, why today? And is this all we get? And is this a response to the studies that were done by the agencies? Or is this considered a summary of them?

MR. KIRBY: This is the result of months and months of work by individual agencies who were participating in the withdrawal to voluntarily review that withdrawal, which they did. And they worked through that. These are — these documents are classified. And we felt it was the responsible thing to do, after those reviews were done, to then run a process across the administration to take a look at those reviews ourselves across the interagency, work our way through it, and then provide them to the relevant committees and leaders on the Hill, which we did today. We think that was the responsible thing to do.

CBS’s Ed O’Keefe Calls Out John Kirby On A Blatant Holiday News Dump Of The Afghanistan Report