Those beginning to look in from outside & try to figure out what all this #AfghanAdjustmentAct noise is about may notice us calling out certain senators. You need to know that from the beginning our @afghanevac @EvacOurAllies work has been devoid of partisanship. We don't 1/🧵 care what party affiliations we each have. For 17 months and counting we've just been working to uphold US promises to Afghans. This should give us all hope for America - it is completely possible to avoid the party fights tearing our country apart. 2/

Here's the thing about the #AfghanAdjustmentAct: The evacuation chaos that resulted in 10s of thousands of Afghans being rushed to the US w/o careful prioritizing of who should get on planes, is the fault of @POTUS. Reps & Dems are right to call out the admin over this. 1/ 🧵 However, by blocking the #AfghanAdjustmentAct, @ChuckGrassley is punishing the Afghans who have already been been punished by poor US actions. It's not their fault the evac was chaos. It does not make sense to further punish the victims of the chaos. 2/

A year ago tomorrow. I've still barely had time to process. That morning of the Abbey Gate bombing, one of my team's contacts asked for our help getting a female athlete through the gate. We thought she'd entered the airport the night before. 1/
washingtonpost.com/national-secur… That morning French time, as my teammates in the US were asleep, we learned the athlete had been outside Abbey Gate for nearly 24 hours in the sun w/o water, since the TB had taken her backpack at the checkpoint. 2/