Ooof: ABC, NBC Challenge Biden WH on al-Qaeda Threat After Drone Strike

Curtis Houck | August 2, 2022
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Amid the welcome news that a recent U.S. drone strike had eliminated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today provided welcome pushback Tuesday to the Biden administration’s attempted victory lap by pressing National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on the fact that last August’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan allowed Zawahiri to live openly in downtown Kabul.

On GMA, former Clinton official and co-host George Stephanopoulos gingerly went down the road with Sullivan by asking first whether the strike would make a “difference…right now and are you worried about possible retaliation.”

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