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Evacuation order wed in a lot of trouble. did you ever advise to that -- to that effect during the inter agency process? did you warn about that possibility of drawing down so quickly before civilian evacuation was under way? >> yeah, but its more complicated than that. the drawdown of the forces under miller, those guys are advisers. they are not the neo kind of guys. the neo troops are marine expeditionary unit and elements of the 82nd airborne division. thats what you need in order to do the ...

Then had a civilian evacuation order, we would be in drought. did you advice to that? did you warn about that possibility? of drawing down so quickly before an evacuation was under way? >> yeah, but it is more complicated than that. the draw down of the forces under miller, those guys are advisors. theyre not the neo kind of guys. the neo troops our marine expedition movements. those are the plans that the secretary is refers to and there is specific drigers. the secretary on the 12th of august ...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...