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President Biden just sinks lower and lower. The Raging Patriot reported last year that a damning report has recently come to light that shows that the Taliban may have offered control of Kabul to Biden, to which Biden steadfastly refused. Taliban fighters took the Afghan capital city of Kabul faster than anyone anticipated earlier this month – including the Taliban – but according to a Washington Post report, the U.S. had an opportunity to hold the city only to willingly turn it over. When Afghanistan‘s president Ashraf Ghani fled the country, the city began to collapse as gangs were reported to be taking over. This led to U.S. military leaders meeting and reaching an agreement with the Taliban, a U.S. official told the Post. “We have two options to deal with it,” Taliban political leader Abdul Ghani Baradar reportedly said, according to the official. “You [the United States military] take responsibility for securing Kabul or you have to allow us to do it.” Faced with the decision of whether to accept control over Kabul or allow the Taliban to do so, the U.S. opted for the latter, given President Biden’s insistence on withdrawing from Afghanistan by August 31. As part of the agreement, the U.S. assumed control of Kabul’s airport until the end of the month to facilitate its exit while the Taliban ruled the city.
It is now being reported that
A federal watchdog is suing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for failing to release documents related to the Biden administration’s decision to tap into emergency oil reserves amid global supply shortages.
In a complaint filed last Monday, the Functional Government Initiative (FGI), a nonprofit transparency group, alleged that President Joe Biden’s DOE is “wrongfully withholding” information on its deployment of millions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The watchdog filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records dating back one year with the keywords “Biden poll numbers,” “oil supply imbalance,” “inflation” and others.
FGI spokesman Pete McGinnis said in a press release Thursday: “Rising gas prices that are a direct result of the administration’s failed energy policy is not an emergency. Every time we release oil from the SPR, or sell it to China for that matter, we put our national security at risk by unnecessarily depleting our emergency oil reserves. Americans deserve to know if the motive behind these initial releases were political.”
In November of 2021, Biden announced the release of 50 million barrels from the reserves, the largest in American history. His administration also ordered the release of 180 million barrels in March of 2022 for the next six months.
