Mike Pompeo in Fear, by Bob Woodward

On War & Peace: CIA should not take responsibility for Afghanistan fighting

Pompeo described the FBI's position. "We don't have the apparatus to take control of this. This is something the army's got to do. You're saying make it a joint venture. We don't have those kinds of resources [or] expertise on the scale they're talking about. We're not going to take responsibility. Because we're not going to win. You understand we're not going to win." And that would be hard because Trump was saying, "How come we're not winning? How come they're (Taliban) blowing up guys?" Source: Fear: Trump in the White House, by Bob Woodward, p.258 Sep 10, 2019

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