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@Dina_Albayati @itsapurdy Unfortunately , what is even more difficult and frustrating is the knowledge - now confirmed - that a significant proportion (40%, as I understand) of the random people we flew out of Kabul last August were not our Afghan Allies - SIV, P1, P2 - but corrupt Kabul elites.

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@Dina_Albayati @itsapurdy They shoved our Afghan Allies aside and bullied and bribed their way into the airport in front of more deserving people, who don’t need the Afghan Adjustment Act because Americans, through Congress, already decided long ago to welcome them.

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@Dina_Albayati @itsapurdy I find it very difficult to advocate for the Afghan Adjustment Act (AAA) for this very reason.

Furthermore, I recall concerns re criminal patronage networks (search Afghanistan Corruption in Conflict for @SIGARHQ reports) and wonder whether anyone cares any more.

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@Dina_Albayati @itsapurdy @SIGARHQ I wonder if a not insignificant proportion of proposed beneficiaries of the Afghan Adjustment Act were already well and unfavorably known to the USG via @SIGARHQ for this reason.

If so, I wonder why America, and Americans, should welcome them?

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