The US Implicated More Than 500 Journalists In Afghanistan
The US implicated more than 500 journalists in Afghanistan: Congressman Michael McCaul.
Michael McCaul, a senior Republican on the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, said more than 500 journalists and their families, who were hired by the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), were released by the State Department in Afghanistan.
“It is absolutely shameful that the US State Department claimed they fired their local staff, when in fact they left hundreds of USAGM journalists and their families,” McColl said in a statement on Tuesday.
The US implicated more than 500 journalists: ‘Some of these journalists were assured by the Biden administration that they would be treated as locally employed employees, but this was not done.’
McCoul said only 50 employees of the US media agency were fired because of the efforts of US allies, not the United States government.
The United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) is a global media agency that oversees five US-funded media outlets, including Voice of America and Radio Free Asia.
McCoul said his office’s pleas to help a journalist, his wife, and newborn child have been repeatedly ignored.
“My office was working with one of these journalists and for two weeks tried to bring attention to his case to save him, his wife, and their newborn baby, but ignored our pleas.”
The Republican representative further asked President Joe Biden and the State Department to find ways to protect these people from threats and safety.
According to US media reports, some 250,000 Afghans eligible for US visas stayed in the country in the month of August, when the US military could only evacuate 20,000 people per day.
The US completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan on August 30, ending one of its longest wars.
In a matter of weeks, US and coalition forces evacuated more than 123,000 civilians from Afghanistan, and a little over 6,000 of them were US citizens.
