During an appearance on Newsmax’s “Newsline” Thursday, former National Security Council chief of staff and ex-CIA analyst Fred Fleitz condemned the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., calling the deployed troops “heroes” and crediting their presence with preventing further casualties.
Fleitz also supported President Donald Trump’s decision to mobilize an additional 500 Guard members to Washington following the attack.
Fleitz linked the incident to what he described as failures in the Biden administration’s vetting of Afghan evacuees after the 2021 withdrawal, warning of potential sleeper cells and calling the situation a consequence of “incredible incompetence.”
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