The top Republican member on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations demanded the Biden administration address a report that a U.S. military commander blocked a group of 25 American citizens from entering the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux<\/a> told the Daily Caller News Foundation that his nonprofit organization had organized bus transport to the Kabul airport for 100 Christians, 300 orphans and 25 American citizens early Thursday morning. But when the evacuees arrived at the airport, Robichaux said a \u201cmilitary commander\u201d made a scene and made the evacuees leave the airfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe really created a scene with us, did not like what we were doing and how we were doing it and actually made the people get back on the bus, put them outside the gate and essentially sic them back off to the Taliban,\u201d Robichaux said of the military commander, which he identified as the commander of the 82nd Airborne Brigade during a separate interview with Newsmax<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, the ranking Republican member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, expressed shock that a military official would block American citizens from entering the Kabul airport in a Friday letter<\/a> to the Departments of Defense<\/a> and State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s hard to believe that any U.S. military official would deny Americans the ability to evacuate Afghanistan,\u201d Johnson said in the letter. \u201cWhat generalized or specific order was given to the commander that caused him to take this alleged action? Where did this order originate?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Johnson also demanded the Biden administration address what actions have been taken to locate the American citizens from Robichaux\u2019s bus that were allegedly turned away from the Kabul airport on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n