{"id":40451,"date":"2021-08-26T00:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/ex-cia-officer-criticises-congressmen-for-taking-instagram-trip-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2021-08-26T00:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:02:31","slug":"ex-cia-officer-criticises-congressmen-for-taking-instagram-trip-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/districtchronicles.com\/ex-cia-officer-criticises-congressmen-for-taking-instagram-trip-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-CIA officer criticises congressmen for taking \u2018Instagram trip\u2019 to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Former CIA officer Phil Mudd is not pleased with two congressmen and their decision to visit Kabul, Afghanistan, for an \u201cInstagram trip.\u201d<\/p>\n

While in conversation with Brianna Keilar and John Berman, Mudd called out Seth Moulton (D-MA) and Peter Meijer (R-MI) for their trip to Kabul<\/a>, which ended with the two departing on a military flight that was meant for Americans and Afghan refugees threatened by the Taliban.<\/p>\n

“Phil, I do want to get your take on something else we learned overnight, which is two members of Congress, Seth Moulton and Peter Meijer, made this unannounced trip to Afghanistan to assess the situation on the ground,” Berman said.<\/p>\n

Berman noted that Moulton and Meijer are veterans \u201cwho would say they wanted to go on a fact-finding mission,\u201d which has been \u201csharply criticised\u201d by the administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wonder what your view of it is,\u201d Berman asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cReprehensible. Sharply criticised is too polite,\u201d Mudd said.<\/p>\n

He further said that Joe Biden noted that the situation is \u201cso dangerous\u201d that the US military can no longer be in the country. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo two members of Congress, without the support of their leadership, decide they\u2019re going to bypass Disneyland and take an Instagram trip to Afghanistan because they want some eye candy for a bunch of constituents,\u201d Mudd continued.<\/p>\n

But he didn\u2019t stop there.<\/p>\n

Mudd also noted if he were House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority leader\u00a0 Kevin McCarthy he \u201cwould see this a chance for bipartisanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also would want them to be asked about \u201cthe two seats they took out,\u201d seemingly disregarding refugees.<\/p>\n

“What do you tell them? Last thing I\u2019d say, evidently, from what I\u2019ve read, whatever brilliant insight they got, the slow start meant we could get fewer people out than we would have gotten out if we started fast,\u201d Mudd said.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Mudd thinks the two representatives \u201cought to go from their committees.”<\/p>\n

Check out the interview clip below.<\/p>\n