Senior White House officials resisted efforts to move quickly in the evacuation from Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s rapid advances last August, thus hampering safety, according to an Army investigative report.

Testimony by senior military leaders about the weeks leading up to Kabul’s fall suggests the Biden administration was unwilling to take the steps needed to speed the U.S. exit from Afghanistan because doing so would suggest Washington had erred in how it approached the evacuation.

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