Ex-army generals testify on chaotic US Afghanistan withdrawal

Bill Huizenga, a Michigan Republican, addresses Gen Milley about not knowing the number of US citizens and allies in Afghanistan.

“My office alone had nearly 200 open cases in my congressional district,” he says.

His colleagues were having similar numbers, he says.

“This fantasy that we didn’t know there were US citizens over there, is a complete fallacy,” he says.

“State department should have been talking to us, and they were not.”

Huizega talks about an interpreter with the army, who was able to flee Afghanistan and is now a US citizen living in the States. His wife, he says, was not as fortunate and was beaten by the Taliban.

The US embassy had her passport. “Guess what they did? They destroyed it all on the retrograde,” Huizega says.

“She had to print off a letter of proof, but this only served to show the Taliban where she was going.”

She was finally brought to the US this past weekend, he says.

“If that isn’t an indication of a broken policy and broken system, I don’t know what is.”