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No accountability. you gentlemen have spent your lives -- and i completely respect it -- troops in combat, you have been in combat and had troops under your command killed in action and you have been part of an institution where accountability is so critical and the american people respect that up and down the chain where there are instances commanders get relieved. up and down the chain we see it. the mccain incident, fitzgerald incident. aav incident with the marine car. 3 star and 4 star officers relieved of duty. but on this matter on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation th...

You gentlemen have spent your lives -- and i completely respect it, troops in combat, you've had troops under your command killed in action, you have been part of an institution where accountability is so critical, and the american people respect that up and down the chain. commanders get relieved up and down the chain. we see it. the mccain incident, the fitzgerald incident, the aab incident with the marine corps. three-star, four-star flag officers all relieved of duty. but on this matter, on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation, there has been zero accountability, no respons...

Accountability. you gentlemen have spent your lives and i completely respect it, troops in combat, you've had troops under your command killed in action. you have been part of an institution where accountability is so critical. commanders get relieved up and down the chain, we see it, the mccain incident, the fitzgerald incident, the aav incident with the marine corps. but on this matter on the biggest national security fiasco in a generation, there has been zero accountability, no responsibility from anybody. so i will ask this final question of all of you. senator cotton talked about it. >> ...

0 why wasn't action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you're right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further probl...

0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. >> mr. secretary i don...