During a classified briefing on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley "directly blamed" the State Department for the United States' bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, reports Axios, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.
Milley reportedly told lawmakers that State officials "waited too long" to order the evacuation operation out of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Such private comments were "far more blunt" than the general's public testimony, in which he said the issue of the order's timing is an "open question that needs further exploration," per Axios.
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