NBC Reports Online (Not on TV) That Only 3 Percent of Our Afghan Helpers Are Evacuated

NBC News reported that the United States had failed to evacuate Afghans from Afghanistan who were serving the U.S. military forces and wanted to move. The following was tweeted by them:

A new study shows that the United States only evacuated about 3 percent of Afghans who were employed by it and had applied for special visas. The remaining 78,000 Afghans are still in America.

By @dandeluce https://t.co/CXDkejPwrO

— NBC Investigations (@NBCInvestigates) March 1, 2022

Dan DeLuce reported the following:

The Afghans stuck in the Taliban-ruled country face increasingly desperate circumstances, the report by the nonprofit Association of Wartime Allies said.

“Their lives have been devastated by being left behind with seemingly no verifiable path to safety,” said the group, which helps Afghans who worked for the U.S. government during America’s 20-year-long war….

According to the report, despite the fact that tens and thousands of Afghans had been evacuated during the chaotic final days of U.S. military presence, just 3,000 of them were eligible for special immigrant visa programs.

We have to wonder: Was this story on the NBC News broadcasts? The NBC news airwaves didn’t carry it. Nightly NewsOr on Today Over the past three days. MSNBC didn’t have any indication of the phenomenon either. 

Another reason President Biden did not want to refer to Afghanistan in his State of the Union address is because of this. 

On February 10, Fox reporter Jennifer Griffin told the story of Saadi Khalidi, a Kurdish-Iranian dissident who had worked to protect Americans in the capital city of Kabul for 20 years. He had been on the run with his family since the U.S. military left Afghanistan in August. Khalidi was able to get a visa for special immigrants after months of evading Taliban forces.

Only problem? He had been assassinated just two weeks prior.