State Department Official Grilled On US Afghanistan Funding Going To 'Wrong Hands' During Withdrawal
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller was asked about federal funding for Afghanistan during the withdrawal in 2021.
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00:00and in the Pentagon as well. Fourteen U.S. soldiers who died on the last day and I asked
00:07for inquiry at the Pentagon. My issue was that the U.S. was already withdrawn. There
00:13was no ambassador of the State Department at that time in Afghanistan. The second thing
00:18I'd be raising with you, Mr. Kirby, is the weapons left there. Mr. Trump mentioned it
00:25as well. Now the other thing is Reuters mentioned, again this issue I've mentioned with you,
00:31that the U.S. funds to Afghanistan may have landed into the wrong hands as well. All these
00:38three issues just I want to give you again an opportunity to at least give your opinion
00:44or thoughts about it a little more. If you want a different answer, you're not going
00:50to get one. With respect to weapons, I would defer to my colleagues at the Pentagon, obviously,
00:56who I think you said you raised that question before. They're the appropriate agency to
00:59speak to that. When it comes to U.S. funding of the Taliban, no, we flatly do not fund
01:05the Taliban. I've made that clear on a number of occasions.