Hey everybody and welcome back to season two of Cash's Corner.

So Cash, we're going to have to talk about Afghanistan. This is, you know, frankly, I think

every media in the world right now is talking about Afghanistan. This is, you know, frankly, I think every media in the world right now is

talking about Afghanistan. You actually played a pretty important, really important role

in the original withdrawal plan under the Trump administration. You were actually tasked

with implementing it, among other things.

Before we go there, this wasn't your kind of, I guess, first rodeo in dealing with Afghanistan,

actually. You were, you did quite a bit of work with respect to Afghanistan previously under

the Obama administration.

Yeah, unfortunately, we are here talking about Afghanistan because it's not going

well. But is my time at the Department of Justice. I was a terrorism prosecutor working a lot of

prosecutions both in Afghanistan, related to Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the Haqqqani network.

And then during the Obama administration, as a career official, I went to the military to a place called Joint Special Operations Command,

where we worked with our special forces elements heavily in Afghanistan to find targets, or what we would call high-value targets, HVTs.

And they would need to meet a certain legal threshold based on intelligence

before we could make a decision as to their what we called end state.

End state being a kinetic strike via drone, a capture operation by our partner forces or

our special forces, and or prosecution in America or abroad in some other country where

we knew there would sufficiently face justice. So we did a lot of work in what we call

the general targeting space and to find an end state that we did. And we spent a lot of time

with a lot of Army special forces, Navy special forces, and a number of other folks who assisted in that

mission. So, and there's at least one of these high value targets, as you're describing,

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