2 months ago

5.96K

The State Department's
@UnderSecPD
Darren Beattie debunks ProPublica’s claim that DOGE “targeted” an “Afghan scholar who fled the Taliban”:

“There was a whole saga of a takeover of the US Institute of Peace under DOGE.

Just to give you a sense of what these [US Institute of Peace workers] were like, they barricaded themselves in the offices. They sabotaged the physical infrastructure of the building. There were reports of loaded guns within the offices.

There was one hostage situation where they held a security guard under basically kind of a false imprisonment type situation. It was extremely intense. Far more so than the better known story of USAID.

And in the course of all of that, they tried to delete a TERABYTE of data of accounting information that would indicate what kind of stuff they were up to. What kind of people they were paying.

And in the course of that, DOGE found that one of the people on their payroll was this curious figure who had a prominent role in the Taliban government and then seemed to play a bunch of angles across each other.

The question is, what the heck is an organization like this doing having an individual who is a former Taliban member on their payroll?!

I think even more bizarre than having this former Taliban guy on the payroll is the kind of schizophrenic posture in relation to Afghanistan exhibited by the US Institute of Peace.

One truly bizarre thing is that one of the US Institute of Peace's main kind of policy agendas was basically lamenting the fact that the opium trade had DISSIPATED under Taliban leadership. They had multiple reports coming out, basically saying, ‘this is horrible that the opium trade is diminished under the Taliban. We need to find some way to restore it.’ How bizarre is that!

The whole story of opium and Afghanistan and its connection to government entities is a very intricate and delicate and fascinating one. But it seems very clear that the US Institute of Peace was involved in that story to some degree.

The ProPublica thing, as usual and as expected, was a total joke…What's very clear is he was a former Taliban guy, and he was probably one of these people who was playing all sides, made a lot of enemies.

This has nothing to do with DOGE.

This random former Taliban guy, I think his contract was $130,000.” - Glenn Beck - post - https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1960410635793260796
Facebook doesn’t want you reading most sites we link to or any vids we post. Their algorithm hides our pages and humor too as best it can. The way to stick it to Zuckerberg? Sign up for our once-a-day newsletter. Takes 6 seconds. We send out the best – most popular links daily, no spam, plus a splash of honesty even beyond Whatfinger’s homepage…. – CLICK HERE 🛑 - https://www.whatfinger.com/newsletter/
For HOURS of fun – Steve Inman as well as other humor, quick smile clips , more – Whatfinger’s collection – https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/category/just-interesting/
Is Ivermectin the Key to Fighting Cancer? …. – Wellness (Dr. McCullough’s company) Sponsored Post 🛑 You can get MEBENDAZOLE and Ivermectin from Wellness 👍https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/2025/03/28/is-ivermectin-the-key-to-fighting-cancer-people-are-being-cured-all-over-the-world/
The News Variable Show of Whatfinger News, with Mal Antoni hosting... All controversial statements by Mr. Antoni are his own opinions. If you don't like them, don't watch. If you are one of those nut cases who watch just to complain, get a life or stick to fake news. We have no time for your BS. America needs patriots that just say it like it is. If you don't like it, too damn bad. Mr. Antoni is now the main editor over at Whatfinger News, the greatest aggregate news site out there - with more news and commentary daily than the next 7 competitors combined. Experience it once and you're hooked https://www.whatfinger.com/
------DISCLAIMER: This show contains opinions of the host and guests and is meant for education and/or entertainment purposes only. News Variable provides information and the sources where it was obtained. Viewer discretion is advised.
Facebook doesn’t want you reading most sites we link to or any vids we post. Their algorithm hides our pages and humor too as best it can. The way to stick it to Zuckerberg? Sign up for our once-a-day newsletter. Takes 6 seconds. We send out the best – most popular links daily, no spam, plus a splash of honesty even beyond Whatfinger’s homepage…. – CLICK HERE 🛑 - https://www.whatfinger.com/newsletter/
For HOURS of fun – Steve Inman as well as other humor, quick smile clips , more – Whatfinger’s collection – https://choiceclips.whatfinger.com/category/just-interesting/
The News Variable Show of Whatfinger News, with Mal Antoni hosting... All controversial statements by Mr. Antoni are his own opinions. If you don't like them, don't watch. If you are one of those nut cases who watch just to complain, get a life or stick to fake news. We have no time for your BS. America needs patriots that just say it like it is. If you don't like it, too damn bad. Mr. Antoni is now the main editor over at Whatfinger News, the greatest aggregate news site out there - with more news and commentary daily than the next 7 competitors combined. Experience it once and you're hooked https://www.whatfinger.com/
------DISCLAIMER: This show contains opinions of the host and guests and is meant for education and/or entertainment purposes only. News Variable provides information and the sources where it was obtained. Viewer discretion is advised.