On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has gone rogue to travel to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan on a rescue mission, in the face of multiple warnings not to do so from the Pentagon and State Department — and that nobody knows where he is.
“Mullin told the [Tajik] embassy that he planned to fly from Tblisi, Georgia, into Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, in the next few hours and needed the top diplomat’s help, according to the two U.S. officials familiar with the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private conversations about a sensitive matter,” reported Tayler Pager and John Hudson. “Embassy officials told Mullin they could not assist him in skirting Tajikistan’s laws on cash limits on his way to visiting one of the most dangerous places on earth.”
The Post’s sources said that Mullin was “outraged by the response” and even threatened U.S. ambassador John Mark Pommersheim and embassy staff and “demanding to know the name of staff members he was speaking with.”
According to the report, Mullin previously attempted to fly into Afghanistan through Greece, but was rebuffed by U.S. officials on that occasion as well.
Read more at Raw Story.
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Jen Psaki promised us that any American that wants to come home will be helped. We will make sure he’s safe.
Our “leaders” would be as happy to abandon him to the Taliban as they have so many others.
I’m sure Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff will make it their personal business to find their fellow Congressman.