1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,280 Speaker 1: Hey, Michael and Dragon. 2 00:00:01,400 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 2: For that last caller complaining about women's basketball, which we 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 2: all know is boring. I got two words for you, 4 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 2: Sophie Cunningham. Look up a picture, bro, No, did you 5 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 2: look it up? 6 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:16,640 Speaker 1: I did? 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 3: And yep, all right, dang it, this is not yep, Sophie. 8 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:31,480 Speaker 3: What Cunningham. Sophie Cunningham, I now know she plays with 9 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 3: a fever. Oh oh, well, in this case, women's basketball 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:43,280 Speaker 3: might be a good. 11 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: Thing to watch. 12 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 3: Got a little bit more interesting, didn't it. It certainly did. Hmm, 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:53,120 Speaker 3: Sophie Cunningham. Two words I ever thought i'd say together 14 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 3: in my life. I don't mean I don't even know Sophie, 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 3: do you know? So I don't know any Sophie's. I 16 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 3: know some Cunningham's, but I don't know Sophie's. No Sophie's 17 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 3: at all. This next segment, this next this hour is 18 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: a two parter, So you're going to have to step 19 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 3: up your game a little bit because I need to 20 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 3: establish today something that I want to address in the morning, 21 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 3: because I'm not quite finished with tomorrow. Tomorrow we're going 22 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:31,320 Speaker 3: to talk about temporary This is like, you know, oh, Michael, 23 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 3: you need to tease more. Okay, well, I'm teasing for 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:37,280 Speaker 3: tomorrow morning at nine am, at nine oh four or 25 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 3: whatever it is, we're going to talk about temporary protective status, 26 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,840 Speaker 3: the countries that have it, and whether we should eliminate 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 3: it or not. But before I finish that, I've got 28 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,920 Speaker 3: to do this, I want to talk about something that 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:01,080 Speaker 3: occurred back in twenty twenty one. It's Biden's zero unit mistake, 30 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:08,839 Speaker 3: and it is it is when Afghan or Taliban, Yeah, 31 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 3: either either Tomato Tomato death squads came to this country. 32 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 3: Death squads in this country. If you've seen the video 33 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:26,399 Speaker 3: of the ambush of the two young National Guard soldiers 34 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 3: barely into adulthood, their early twenties, they're walking their post 35 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 3: near the White House, it is very the video is 36 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 3: very brief. It is very sickening. An Islamic terrace rounds 37 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:46,240 Speaker 3: the corner, raises a revolver and opens fire. Now, obviously 38 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: everything's happening, you know, in real time, really rapidly, and 39 00:02:50,320 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 3: by the time the other guardsmen tackle him, Sarah Bestrom 40 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: is fatally wounded. She died Thanksgiving Day staff sergeant and 41 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,600 Speaker 3: through Wolf still fighting for his life. Indications I haven't 42 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 3: checked this morning. The indications light late last night, well 43 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 3: late for me anyway, were that he could wiggle his 44 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 3: toes when they requested it, and he pointed a finger 45 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 3: or something that he could hear what the nurse was saying. 46 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 3: The suspect, Romanula Luckenwall is not just some random drifter 47 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,280 Speaker 3: that came here. He's a former member of the CI's 48 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: elite Afghan Zero Units. The Zero Units are, or were, 49 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 3: a paramilitary stripe force. They were trained to kill and 50 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 3: they were trained for capture missions in the heartland of 51 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 3: the Taliban occupied territory. He came here through Biden's Operation 52 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 3: Allies Welcome program. 53 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: And then he was granted asylum. The war in. 54 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 3: Afghanistan did not stay in Afghanistan. We actually picked some 55 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 3: of that war up and flew some of it into 56 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:12,480 Speaker 3: our own neighborhoods. To see why this matters. To understand 57 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 3: why this matters, you've got to know what the Zero 58 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 3: Units were. You've heard of the thin blue line. How 59 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 3: about blue on green? Have you heard of blue on Green? Well, 60 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 3: I'll get to that in a minute, but I want 61 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 3: you to think about, Oh, you've heard fragging, except this 62 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 3: is not technically fragging. During the later years of the 63 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:47,080 Speaker 3: Afghan War, the CIA quietly created Afghan only commando teams 64 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:52,720 Speaker 3: and they operated outside of the separate from Afghanistan's ordinary 65 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 3: military chain of command. Human Rights Watch describes these formations 66 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:05,040 Speaker 3: as CIA backed and they conducted very high risk night raids. 67 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 3: There was rarely, if ever, any meaningful Afghan government oversight. 68 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: There have been documents released the show repeated allegations of 69 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:23,920 Speaker 3: extra judicial killings, force disappearances at tax on medical facilities. 70 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 3: Pro Publica's multi year investigation into just one of these 71 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,000 Speaker 3: units concluded that the night raids conducted by one unit 72 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 3: killed hundreds of civilians, even in a limited four year sample, 73 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 3: with total casualties probably higher than what Pro publica found out. 74 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 3: And these are not claims based on speculation. They're not 75 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 3: from partisan blogs. They're the product of painstaking field reporting, 76 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 3: interviews with survivors, cross checking, checking a mor record, satellite imagery, 77 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 3: everything that you would expect an organization like Pro public 78 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 3: Kids to really do. Let's talk about the Candahar based 79 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:09,200 Speaker 3: Unit zero three. This is where lock and Wall, the 80 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,839 Speaker 3: guy that killed the guardsmen in DC, this is the 81 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 3: unit that he served, is based in Kandahar and operated 82 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 3: out of fire based Gecko fire based Gecko is a 83 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 3: former Taliban compound that was repurposed as a CIA hub. 84 00:06:26,640 --> 00:06:31,799 Speaker 3: Journalists and human rights investigators have chronicled raids in Kandahar 85 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:35,799 Speaker 3: and Helman in which the three operators separated women and children, 86 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:38,760 Speaker 3: dragged them in from their homes, and then left the 87 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: bodies in the courtyard. That's the unit where this guy served. Michael. 88 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,799 Speaker 4: If someone is given asylum here in the United States 89 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 4: and then commits a horrible, heinous crime like this gentleman 90 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 4: from Afghanistan, can as asylum be revoked? 91 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:57,000 Speaker 1: Yeah? 92 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 3: But why Because if he commits the crowd like like 93 00:07:00,279 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 3: this dirt bag that shot the guardsman, if they proved 94 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,760 Speaker 3: the case and be on a reasonable doubt and he's 95 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,960 Speaker 3: found guilty, then he wasn't just sending back to Afghanistan. 96 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: Because if you listen to the rest of what. 97 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 3: I'm about to talk about, I want the guy to 98 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 3: get the death penalty. I don't want him to go 99 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 3: back to Afghanistan to become another terrorist to attack either 100 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 3: US again by sneaking back into the country or going 101 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 3: to some other country over that matter, killing an innocent 102 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 3: Afghani's I want the guy put to death. So the 103 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,240 Speaker 3: asylum has only to do with his immigration status, nothing 104 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 3: to do with his legal liability criminally or civilly while 105 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 3: he's in this country. And yeah, you could revoke the 106 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 3: asylum based on the criminal conviction. I'm pretty sure into 107 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,640 Speaker 3: the Naturalization Act you can do that, but I haven't 108 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 3: looked at it specifically. But that's my gut feeling as 109 00:08:02,960 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 3: a lawyer. So let's go back to this Zero unit operations. 110 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 3: A lot of Afghan witnesses have spoke of spoken about 111 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 3: school principles executed in front of their families, detainees taken 112 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 3: away never seen again. 113 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: And I told you. 114 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 3: The twenty nineteen Human Rights Watch report listed at at 115 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 3: least fourteen separate zero unit operations with credible evidence of 116 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 3: war crimes, the killing of women and children during night raids, 117 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 3: and Pro Publica's Lindsey Billing, who spent years interviewing these 118 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 3: zero unit soldiers and their victims, quotes one fighter saying 119 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 3: bluntly that Americans pointed out the targets so the Afghans 120 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 3: could hit them, and then they would sign the battle 121 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,360 Speaker 3: damage assessments. They reported no civilian deaths, even when women 122 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,960 Speaker 3: and children would be lying over there in the rubble. 123 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 3: The defenders of these units would reply that they were 124 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 3: also extremely effective against Teliban and the ISIS commanders, and 125 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,960 Speaker 3: that is probably true. CIA officers US Special operators did 126 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 3: not invest years in training a bunch of useless proxies. 127 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 3: They trained them to be effective and lethally effective. But 128 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 3: the moral problem is not efficiency, it's the method. These 129 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 3: units were built to provide deniability, to operate in the shadows, 130 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 3: to shoot first, and then count the bodies, if you 131 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 3: counted them at all. For that matter, the whole structure 132 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:44,319 Speaker 3: was designed to insulate US political leadership from hard questions 133 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,840 Speaker 3: about who was being killed in the dead of night. 134 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 3: It's why the CIA put these groups together, not the 135 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 3: US military. It is one thing, though already questionable, to 136 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 3: use such forces on foreign soil in an existential war. 137 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,439 Speaker 3: It is quite another thing to fly them with minimal 138 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 3: rethinking and minimal safeguards into the suburbs of America Operation 139 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 3: Allies Welcome. I freely admit I've kind of racked my 140 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 3: you know, my diet coke addle brain to do I 141 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:29,560 Speaker 3: remember that Moniker specifically about these units, and I don't, 142 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 3: But that's what it was called, Operation Allies Welcome. That 143 00:10:34,120 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 3: was Biden's signatory evacuation policy. In the weeks after Cable fell, 144 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:44,920 Speaker 3: and by Biden's own count, almost one hundred thousand Afghans 145 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 3: were brought into this country under the umbrella of Operation Allies. 146 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: Welcome. 147 00:10:50,200 --> 00:10:55,800 Speaker 3: Among them were interpreters, embassy staff, but also large numbers 148 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 3: of Afghan special operators and at least in including at 149 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:05,160 Speaker 3: least at a minimum two thousand members of these zero units. 150 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 3: Now a lot of the news outlets are now reporting 151 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,680 Speaker 3: the whole clusters of Zero Unit veterans were resettled in 152 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,240 Speaker 3: and around Seattle and other US cities. Rolling Stone describes 153 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:22,320 Speaker 3: the zero Unit disparate in this country as quote the 154 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:27,640 Speaker 3: CIA's secret Afghan Army starting new lives in the United States, 155 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 3: and that many of these zero Unit members are actually 156 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 3: in touch with their former CIA handlers. There is something 157 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 3: deeply strange about that secret armies are not supposed to 158 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 3: have American zip codes. Secret armies that and look, I'm 159 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: not naive here. I know I got briefed about certain 160 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,719 Speaker 3: things that the CIA was doing and recognized that you know, 161 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,520 Speaker 3: they were to stay over there in the dark sights 162 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,960 Speaker 3: or doing the dark things. 163 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: They weren't to have US zip codes. But they do. 164 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 3: And then the case for evacuating that was all based 165 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 3: on some sort of morality. 166 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: Play that Biden forced upon us. 167 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 5: I wish we had people in our elected offices for 168 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 5: Colorado that had common sense and a basic understanding of economics, 169 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,839 Speaker 5: just like New York has done or will be doing. 170 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 5: Colorado wants to go after the wealthy people. What do 171 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,560 Speaker 5: you think is going to happen when the wealthy people 172 00:12:35,679 --> 00:12:39,120 Speaker 5: get higher taxes, They're going to leave the state and 173 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 5: then you are not going to have the opportunity to 174 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 5: collect those taxes. 175 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 3: And I wish I was a billionaire and has six 176 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 3: pack abs, and you know, was as handsome as well. 177 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 3: Nobody within my side that I can compare myself to 178 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 3: so And he's over back there doing lord knows what. 179 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:04,080 Speaker 1: Not paying thattion neither. What'd you say? Nothing by sleep? 180 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 3: By sleep? I'm want to make something clear. This guy 181 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 3: was brought into this country under Joe Biden's temporary Protected 182 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:25,720 Speaker 3: Status program. When he was brought into the country, he 183 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 3: applied for his asylum under the Biden administration under the 184 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 3: laws that exist for temporary protected status. Yes, his official 185 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:49,440 Speaker 3: date for asylum is April of twenty twenty five, that 186 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 3: would be some depending on what day in April, that 187 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 3: would be a little over three months into the Trump administration. 188 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:04,120 Speaker 3: But that Donald Trump granted asylum to this dirt bag, 189 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 3: but be completely ignorant, which is not surprising to me 190 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 3: among some people who have Trump arrangement syndrome or on 191 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,960 Speaker 3: the other side of the political spectrum, shows a really 192 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:23,200 Speaker 3: complete ignorance of how the bureaucracy works and how once 193 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 3: these processes start, the president has no idea about who 194 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 3: in the US Office of Customs and Immigration Services or 195 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Citizenship and Immigration Services uscis what those bureaucrats 196 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 3: down there in the bowels of the bureaucracy are doing, 197 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 3: which is why the president makes these broad strategic decisions 198 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 3: and the bureaucrats oftentimes do what they down well, please, 199 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:57,280 Speaker 3: irrespect you of what the change in the administration policy 200 00:14:57,800 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 3: might be. 201 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: Back to Biden's. 202 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:10,000 Speaker 3: Zero unit, absolute huge mistake of bringing these people in 203 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 3: the case for evacuation, as I said, was presented in 204 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,960 Speaker 3: moral terms because they want to claim that, you know, 205 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,920 Speaker 3: these men fought beside us. They did fight beside us. 206 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 3: But again I mentioned earlier about have you heard of 207 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 3: blue on green, Blue on Green is where Afghans, particularly 208 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:44,160 Speaker 3: these operating under I can't even say the authorities, authority 209 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:47,880 Speaker 3: of the CIA, I'll bring under the supervision of the CIA, 210 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: decide to kill American soldiers. 211 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: So people in Afghan. 212 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 3: Blue uniform or even if they're not wearing the Afghan 213 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:05,720 Speaker 3: blue uniform, they're operating trained by the CIA, but operating 214 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:09,360 Speaker 3: outside the direct authority of the Afghan military, but yet 215 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 3: they are members of and pay by the Afghan military. 216 00:16:15,120 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: Green and Blue. 217 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 3: The best open source estimates indicate roughly one hundred to 218 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:24,560 Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty attacks in Afghanistan during the war, 219 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 3: which resulted in approximately one hundred and fifty coalition troops killed, 220 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 3: of whom the largest majority were US personnel, on the 221 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 3: order of somewhere between out of one hundred and fifty 222 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,840 Speaker 3: Afghans killing coalition soldiers, somewhere between one hundred and twenty 223 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 3: and one hundred and thirty of those one hundred and 224 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 3: fifty were American soldiers killed by CIA trained Afghan soldiers 225 00:16:52,560 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 3: like this dirt bag that came to this country under 226 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: Biden's evacuation orders. Now, precise counts vary based on data 227 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 3: set and definition, but the range of one hundred and 228 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,320 Speaker 3: twenty to one hundred and thirty out of a total 229 00:17:07,320 --> 00:17:11,080 Speaker 3: of one hundred and fifty reflects the most commonly cited 230 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:17,240 Speaker 3: compiled figures from US military and independent trackers. You know, 231 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,719 Speaker 3: there's a great site, the Long War Journal, that you 232 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,399 Speaker 3: can go read that. We'll talk about Green on Blue, 233 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,800 Speaker 3: which is I think what we saw in d C 234 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:33,359 Speaker 3: is a carryover from bringing these people into the country. 235 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:37,639 Speaker 3: The facts about this dirt bag's life in this country 236 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:42,040 Speaker 3: are really depressingly predictable. He arrived with his wife and 237 00:17:42,119 --> 00:17:45,800 Speaker 3: five kids. They settled in Bellingham, Washington. Reports from local 238 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:49,159 Speaker 3: advocates and landlords subscribe a man drifting into isolation, cycling 239 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,640 Speaker 3: through unstable jobs, taking sudden long road trips and where 240 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 3: was outgoing, and then sinking to what one email called 241 00:17:56,240 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 3: a dark depression. The AP obtained correspondence from a community 242 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 3: worker who repeatedly warned that he was becoming severely withdrawn, 243 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 3: neglecting his own children, showing signs of self harm, and 244 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:12,360 Speaker 3: at the same time, national security officials now say he 245 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:18,040 Speaker 3: was almost certainly radicalized after his arrival, consuming all this 246 00:18:18,119 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 3: online material that reinforced the sense of grievance and martyrdom. 247 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 3: Of course, doesn't take a rocket science to figure that out. 248 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,639 Speaker 3: In other words, we took a man who's only adult 249 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 3: skill was lethal violence in a CIA designed environment of deniability. 250 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 3: We dropped him into an alien culture with minimal support, 251 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,520 Speaker 3: and did just hope the social services, completely inequipped and 252 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,920 Speaker 3: incapable of dealing with someone like this, and of course 253 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 3: the non government organizations, the NGOs or the refugee nonprofit 254 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:55,200 Speaker 3: NGOs would do what years of discipline, trauma and ideological 255 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 3: conflict could not be overcome by. This is not a 256 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:05,479 Speaker 3: serious immigration system. It is foolishness. The problem is not 257 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:08,280 Speaker 3: that Afghans as the people are uniquely prone to violence. 258 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 3: The problem is that the zero units are not a 259 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 3: random cross section of Afghani's They are a very specific population. 260 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:22,280 Speaker 3: They are selected precisely because they could be turned into 261 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 3: uncompromising instruments of violence, taught they were taught to kick 262 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,719 Speaker 3: indoors at night, trained to push past any inhibitions that 263 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 3: most human beings feel when a rifle is pointed at 264 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 3: another man's chest in front of his children, and just 265 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 3: pull the trigger and then, for that matter, to take 266 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 3: out the children too. You know, human rights groups that 267 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 3: are generally sympathetic to refugees. They themselves had been warning 268 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:53,600 Speaker 3: about this design flaw for years, because when Biden announced 269 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 3: the evacuation flights, Human Rights Watch stressed that members of 270 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 3: these abusive af forces, including the Zero Unit veterans, might 271 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:09,280 Speaker 3: themselves require third country relocation or actually just keep them 272 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 3: in country, or alternatively prosecute them, not quietly import them 273 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 3: into Western cities. The reporting in pro public of documents 274 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 3: show how Zero Unit soldiers racked by guilt, describe themselves 275 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 3: as broken men. You want a broken man as subject 276 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:34,320 Speaker 3: to radicalization and doctrination. And when you know that we 277 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:39,320 Speaker 3: have Taliban units in this country, when we know that 278 00:20:39,359 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 3: we have Altaida units still in this country, of course 279 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,480 Speaker 3: they're going to seek out these men. They're already highly trained, 280 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 3: they're already broken, and to radicalize them Hell's bills. I 281 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:56,359 Speaker 3: could probably ride. They're so broken, I could probably radicalize 282 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,680 Speaker 3: them into becoming conservative Republican members of the GOP. You 283 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 3: could write, you could radicalize them into anything. And the 284 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 3: administration's answer has been that Operation Allies Welcome. Vetting was multilayered. Oh, 285 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:17,160 Speaker 3: it was vigorous, involving all sorts of intelligence databases, biometric checks, interviews. 286 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:20,879 Speaker 3: We ought to be honest about what that kind of 287 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 3: vetting cannon cannot do. It might occasionally catch a known 288 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 3: terrorists or a known criminal, or an individual flag by 289 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 3: existing records, but it cannot see inside someone's mind. It 290 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,640 Speaker 3: cannot tell you which if two zero unit team leaders 291 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,160 Speaker 3: is quietly unraveling, or which one will process the loss 292 00:21:39,160 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 3: of a comrade by reading his way into extremist forums. 293 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 3: To rely on vetting alone is to confuse a background 294 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,560 Speaker 3: check with the psychological evaluation. These people should never have 295 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 3: been brought into this country. But that's precisely what Biden did, 296 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 3: and it was all on the moral ground that, oh, 297 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 3: they fought alongside us. Well, I would remind you what 298 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,040 Speaker 3: the mainstream media will not remind you of, and that 299 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,000 Speaker 3: is the blue on Green incidents that killed at least 300 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:10,480 Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty of our soldiers. Where they were, 301 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 3: you know, probably in some area of operation, carrying out 302 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,720 Speaker 3: some you know, raid of some sort, and decided or 303 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,040 Speaker 3: maybe they finished the raid, and then we're just going 304 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:23,000 Speaker 3: back to their barracks, back back to their unit, and 305 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 3: the blue and Green occurred, and they just turned their 306 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 3: rifle and just boom, killed an American soldier and then 307 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 3: probably escaped and ran off into the darkness. Now, defenders 308 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:41,639 Speaker 3: of these units, they want to claim that they were 309 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 3: among the most thoroughly vetted Afghans during the war itself. 310 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: Well, guess what that proves the point. 311 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 3: That proves the point because to thoroughly vet Afghans to 312 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:57,480 Speaker 3: go do what the CIA trained them to do, the 313 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:01,240 Speaker 3: same system that supposedly vetted them overseas also produced by 314 00:23:01,280 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 3: every serious independent account a record of civilian killings, botched trades, 315 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 3: unaccountable Knight operations that poisoned local support for the Afghan government. 316 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,160 Speaker 3: Again pro public is tally of at least four hundred 317 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,000 Speaker 3: and fifty two civilians killed by only one Zero Unit 318 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 3: The zero two forced this unit in Kandahar over four years, 319 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 3: probably an under count, yet it was. It was enough 320 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 3: to at least shock some members of Congress who saw 321 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 3: the numbers. If that is what supposedly thoroughly vetted means 322 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:38,920 Speaker 3: looked like overseas, We should not be reassured by the 323 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 3: claim that those very same filter systems filtered who got 324 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 3: on the evacuation flights. Should we have left as Zero 325 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:54,280 Speaker 3: Unit members to face Taliban revenge? Taliban have in fact 326 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,560 Speaker 3: one hundred and killed former three officers, yet granting them 327 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:02,119 Speaker 3: that you just admitted that fact does not force a 328 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,680 Speaker 3: conclusion that the only humane response is permittent mission into 329 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 3: this country. A serious country, especially one that has already 330 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:17,040 Speaker 3: absorbed decades of immigration challenges, should have and would have 331 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 3: considered regional safe zones or third country resettlement, or even 332 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:24,919 Speaker 3: temporary holding arrangements until an individual case could be evaluated 333 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:29,920 Speaker 3: more carefully. It would have distinguished between interpreters who didn't 334 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:36,159 Speaker 3: have any combat role and Black Ops paramilitaries trained for 335 00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,840 Speaker 3: deniable operations. It would have recognized that importing a secret 336 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,879 Speaker 3: army into your heartland is an extraordinary step. It's not 337 00:24:46,080 --> 00:24:50,160 Speaker 3: some afterthought to be buried in the chaos of that withdrawal. 338 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,960 Speaker 3: You know, there's another good, and I think serious constitutional 339 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 3: point here. We as citizens have never had a clear 340 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 3: debate about whether they were in thousands of CIA proxy 341 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:09,600 Speaker 3: fighters as neighbors. Did anybody ever stop and say, wait 342 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 3: a minute, he may ever go to Congress. Now, I 343 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 3: know the president has the authority to do this, but 344 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 3: did this shows you that when you grant a president 345 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 3: executive authority that it's not just acceptable to just say okay, 346 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 3: well just do it. 347 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: It's like me questioning everything. 348 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 3: And here Biden should have, at least his advisors, at 349 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 3: the very minimum, should have said, you know, mister President, 350 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 3: the zero three units, the zero units writ large, maybe 351 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 3: before we evacuate them, along with the interpreters, maybe we 352 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,120 Speaker 3: move them to a third country while we evaluate them. 353 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 3: That would have been the rational thing to do. But 354 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 3: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan was not rational, and so 355 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 3: now we pay for that. There was no discussion, there 356 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 3: was no vote, There was no staff meeting, there was 357 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,719 Speaker 3: no cabinet meeting, there was no consultation with Congress. There 358 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:17,600 Speaker 3: was nothing. Instead, the decision was effectively made by a 359 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 3: very narrow limited number of people in the national security 360 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,439 Speaker 3: bureaucracy under the cover of these emergency airlifts. That is 361 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,800 Speaker 3: not how a republic should make decisions that are going 362 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 3: to have profound long term security implications. If persistent deployment 363 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:40,000 Speaker 3: of the National Guard in our own capital now requires 364 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 3: clear congressional authorization, then surely permanent resettlement of our own 365 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:47,720 Speaker 3: deniable units. These are deniable. You know, we don't even 366 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 3: know about them. Well, the only reason we do know 367 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 3: about them is because after the withdrawal, which was chaote 368 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 3: can a complete cluster. F we start to learn about these, 369 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 3: we should confront a very hard cultural fact that many 370 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,879 Speaker 3: in I think polite society would rather ignore. These zero 371 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 3: Units were not generic soldiers. They were embedded in a 372 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 3: religious and a cultural context shaped by a form of 373 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,159 Speaker 3: Islam that sees the West not as a home, but 374 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 3: they see the West as their next battlefield. And that's 375 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,320 Speaker 3: precisely why the CIA embraced them as proxies against the Taliban, 376 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 3: because they shared a related but rival vision. 377 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: And then to. 378 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,400 Speaker 3: Pretend that years of fighting in that ideological framework can 379 00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 3: somehow be washed away by hey, here's a free apartment 380 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: and here's an electronic benefits card, so you can feed 381 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 3: yourself and pay your utilities. That's not compassion, that's dereliction 382 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:01,879 Speaker 3: of duty, because healthy assimilation requires a shared civic framework 383 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 3: and a serious attention to the ways in which some 384 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 3: imported belief systems actually cut against our core Western beliefs. Now, 385 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,879 Speaker 3: none of that means that every zero Unit veteran in 386 00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:21,880 Speaker 3: America is a sleeper cell or is a latent terrorist. 387 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 3: Some may really just want to raise their children in 388 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,199 Speaker 3: peace and forget about try to deal with everything that 389 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,960 Speaker 3: they know they did and try to now live a 390 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 3: new life. God give them peace. But we have a 391 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:41,600 Speaker 3: civic duty ourselves to find out who's which. Which ones 392 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 3: are those that really want to leave that horrible life 393 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 3: behind and now live in a country that's providing them 394 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:50,360 Speaker 3: a free apartment and free food and everything else and 395 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:53,680 Speaker 3: maybe actually at some point find you know, really good 396 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,600 Speaker 3: work and become a productive member of society, and which 397 00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 3: ones are going down the dark path. Policy cannot be 398 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,680 Speaker 3: built on just your optimistic hunch about human nature. If 399 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 3: you understand human nature, you know that we're dealing with 400 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 3: two kinds of devils. The devil where they're going to 401 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 3: fall to the dark side and they're going to do 402 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 3: things like go kill a guardsmen in Washington, d c. 403 00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,800 Speaker 3: And those that are still dealing with that devil and 404 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,520 Speaker 3: that darkness in their mind but really do want to 405 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:30,440 Speaker 3: raise their children, and they've compartmentalized that darkness in the 406 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:33,239 Speaker 3: backside of their brain and they've learned to live with it, 407 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 3: and they keep pushing it back there every single day 408 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,520 Speaker 3: while they try to find a job, go to work 409 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 3: and live a life because they know they've been given 410 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,560 Speaker 3: a new opportunity, but without some sort of psychologic or 411 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 3: psychiatric intervention, we don't know A from B. We don't 412 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,920 Speaker 3: know one from the other. The lesson is not that 413 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,560 Speaker 3: these Afghans are uniquely dangerous. It's that when we have 414 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 3: our own government DECI training deniable death squads abroad, then 415 00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 3: when we import them wholesale into our society, that's a 416 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 3: stupid experiment. It is reckless that no republic small or 417 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 3: republican form of government had any right to run and 418 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,840 Speaker 3: just willing Nelly make a decision. What should happen now 419 00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:26,960 Speaker 3: is straightforward. I understand its straightforward an outline, and it's 420 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,959 Speaker 3: difficult in practice, but there should be a complete public 421 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,320 Speaker 3: accounting of how many zero unit members and family households 422 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,240 Speaker 3: were brought here, where they live, what support they've received, 423 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 3: what incidents have any involved them. There should be an 424 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 3: immediate pause on further admissions of any former CIA proxy 425 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 3: fighters from any country, whatever theater they're operating in, until 426 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 3: Congress has legislated some clear rules. There should be mandatory 427 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 3: mental health evaluations and, if necessary, intensive treatment for those 428 00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,480 Speaker 3: already here, with some honest risk assessments about who can 429 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 3: safely remain in a civilian environment, and those who cannot. 430 00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:08,680 Speaker 3: And then there should be an end to the quiet 431 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 3: habit of treating CIA design programs as immune from scrutiny 432 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,840 Speaker 3: from our democratic processes once they cross onto American soil. 433 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 3: Zero units, zero units and blue on green. Go look 434 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 3: it up yourself.