Biden’s Pentagon official Colin Kahl with man-purse to resign, says report.

Top Pentagon Official Colin Kahl to Resign Amid Controversy

Leaked Classified Information and More

Colin Kahl, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for policy, is set to resign later this summer amid controversy. Kahl, a known partisan, faced opposition from Senate Republicans during his 2021 confirmation. He came under fire earlier this year for allegedly leaking classified information to shield the Biden administration from criticism after its botched handling of a Chinese spy balloon floating over American soil.

• Republican senators say that Kahl provided reporters with classified data indicating that Chinese Communist Party spy balloons also flew over America during the Trump administration.
• Kahl also has been accused of leaking classified information over Twitter and other forums, prompting senators to question whether he was even eligible to receive security clearance.
• Additional concerns have been raised about Kahl’s work at a research center that partnered with China’s Peking University, which is closely aligned with the Communist country’s military.

Controversial Past

Kahl assumed the Pentagon’s top policy job in April 2021, following a pitched battle over his Senate confirmation. Republicans united against Kahl, citing his vitriolic tweets calling the GOP the “party of ethnic cleansing,” but Senate Democrats were able to secure his confirmation. Kahl during the Obama administration served as then-vice president Joe Biden’s national security adviser.

Kahl played a principal role in the Biden administration’s bungled 2021 evacuation from Afghanistan that left 13 Americans dead. Republican senators who had questioned Kahl’s fitness for the top Pentagon position said the Afghanistan debacle proved that Kahl was not up for the job.

Kahl also played a principal role in the Obama administration’s 2015 effort to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, which provided the hardline regime with billions of dollars in cash windfalls. In 2016, Kahl publicly played defense for Biden when the then-vice president was accused of lobbying foreign leaders, including those in Ukraine, to vote in favor of an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations. In addition to moonlighting as a disc jockey under the name “Ph.DJ,” Kahl worked to remove pro-Israel language from the Democratic Party’s 2012 platform.

Goodbye Pentagon, Hello Turntables

Despite the controversy surrounding his resignation, Kahl is known for his love of music and his turntables. He plans to leave the Pentagon at the end of the year to spend more time with his passion for DJing.

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