A former Pentagon employee claimed in a recent interview that the U.S. military could have stopped the suicide bomber who last week set off an explosion that killed 13 U.S. service members and over 100 Afghan civilians.
If the report is true, it’s yet another strike against the credibility of the Biden administration and the Defense Department, and should lead to resignations and court-martials for high-ranking members of the administration.
Media Research Center TV reported that in an interview with Univision earlier this week, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, a man named Roger Pardo-Maurer, said that the man who set off a bomb that left 13 American heroes dead was known to the military.
Even worse, according to Pardo-Maurer, a Predator drone operator who had the bomber in his sights, knew his identity and was prepared to neutralize him, was ordered to stand down before the Kabul airport explosion.
“What is being said by people who were involved is that the Department of Defense already knew who the bomber was, and when [the Kabul attack would happen], and that a Predator drone had a lock on him, OK, and that they refused to grant permission to fire upon that bomber,” Pardo-Maurer said, according to an interpretation from MRC.
“[Permission] was requested, and was denied. Why? Because we are in this process of negotiating with the Taliban, who aren’t even in control of their own government or their own people,” the former Defense Department official said.
🚨🚨🚨🚨 Per former Deputy Assistant SecDef Roger Pardo-Maurer, the DoD had foreknowledge of the Kabul bomber AND denied permission to fire to the Predator drone that had a lock on the bomber. pic.twitter.com/ZDh27drdwu
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) August 31, 2021