National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan admitted Tuesday that the administration does not yet have a “complete picture” on the location of American defense equipment abandoned in Afghanistan.
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone,” the Biden adviser said. “But certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, and, obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
Florida Rep. Mike Waltz ripped the withdrawal Sunday night, saying the Taliban “have access to massive caches of heavy weaponry, artillery, armored vehicles, ammunition.”
After seizing control of Afghanistan city-by-city in a timeframe that many thought was breathtakingly fast, the Taliban released photos of U.S. Black Hawk military helicopters at the Kandahar International Airport. The U.S. had provided those to the Afghan army.
"Those Black Hawks were not given to the Taliban. They were given to the Afghan National Security Forces for them to defend themselves," Sullivan said.