Glaring intelligence failure threatens Biden Afghanistan withdrawal plan: The Note

Though the precarious situation in the war-torn nation is a direct threat to President Joe Biden's plan, the commander-in-chief has doubled-down.

The TAKE with Averi Harper As Taliban militants enter Kabul and work continues to negotiate a transfer of power in Afghanistan's capital city, the White House must confront what some have already described as the Biden administration's most glaring intelligence failure yet. "This disaster, this catastrophe that we're watching unfold right now across Afghanistan did not have to happen," said Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., on ABC's "This Week" Sunday. "And it's not just that people predicted that this would happen, everyone was warned that this would happen." Amid the instability, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, U.S. Embassy staff were forced to destroy sensitive information in preparation for a move to the airport, and Gen. Frank McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, met with representatives of the Taliban in Qatar on Sunday to tell them not to interfere with the American mission at the airport, a U.S. official told ABC News.