{"id":36020,"date":"2021-08-26T04:30:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/25\/we-were-not-aware-of-this-visit-pentagon-on-us-congressmen-in-kabul-during-evacuation-video"},"modified":"2021-08-26T04:30:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T19:30:34","slug":"we-were-not-aware-of-this-visit-pentagon-on-us-congressmen-in-kabul-during-evacuation-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36020","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We were not aware of this visit&#8217;: Pentagon on US congressmen in Kabul during evacuation \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has responded to the unexpected arrival of two&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">US Congress<\/a>&nbsp;members in Kabul airport, in what the congressmen claimed was a fact-finding mission but critics have dismissed as grandstanding. \u201cThey certainly took time away from what we had planned to do that day,\u201d said John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Moulton, a Democratic representative from Massachusetts, and Peter Meijer, a Republican representative from Michigan, astonished state department and military officials in the Afghan capital when they flew in on Tuesday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/25\/fury-as-us-politicians-fly-into-kabul-in-midst-of-evacuation-effort\">Fury as US congressmen fly into Kabul in midst of evacuation effort<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2021\/aug\/25\/we-were-not-aware-of-this-visit-pentagon-on-us-congressmen-in-kabul-during-evacuation-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon has responded to the unexpected arrival of two&nbsp;US Congress&nbsp;members in Kabul airport, in what the congressmen claimed was a fact-finding mission but critics have dismissed as grandstanding. \u201cThey certainly took time away from what&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,2319,61,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-house-of-representatives","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-congress"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36021,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36020\/revisions\/36021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}