Matt Gaetz

04/17/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/17/2024 21:58

BREAKING: State Department COVERING UP Conditions of U.S. Forces in Niger!

The U.S. State Department is engaging in a deliberate COVERUP on the conditions of U.S. Forces in Niger, leaving our troops in harm's way. My office has conducted an investigation into this coverup, and we have learned that our troops in Niger have been pleading for help. They've sent intelligence reports stating that they rarely get safe water. They can't get diplomatic overflights to receive medicine, fresh troop rotations, or even basic supplies. They have no mission. And the local authorities are becoming increasingly hostile. The current government of Niger has called the U.S. presence in the country "illegal." Why have you not heard these pleas? Because the U.S. Embassy in Niger has been BLOCKING the intelligence. This coverup exists to conceal the humiliating failures of the Biden Administration in Niger, throughout Africa, and around the world. I fear, as we speak, the conditions may be forming to create another Benghazi-style attack.

(House of Representatives, 04/17/24)