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Blinken on Sharing Lists to Taliban: It’s Like a Manifest to Let a Bus of People Through

‘The idea that we shared lists of Americans or others with the Taliban is simply wrong’
By Grabien Staff

EXCERPT:

BLINKEN: "In specific — so, in specific instances when you're trying to get a bus or a group of people through, and you need to show a manifest to do that, because particularly in cases where people don't have the necessary credentials on them or documents on them, then you would — you'll share names on a list of people on the bus so they can be assured that those are people that we're looking to bring in. And by definition, that's exactly what's happened. We've gotten 5,500 American citizens out of Afghanistan. And to the extent that in an individual case with a particular group or a bus to verify that the people on the bus or in that group were people who were supposed to come out, American citizens, especially, again, if they lacked the right document with them, that's what we would do. But the idea that we put anyone in any further jeopardy is simply wrong."

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