HAMID KARZAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, AFGHANISTAN – AUGUST 22: This handout image shows A Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary unit (MEU) passes out water to evacuees during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. He noted that the Pentagon expects “that number to continue to grow in the coming days.” Kirby, after originally evading the number, also said Tuesday that around 4,000 American passport holders and their families have been evacuated so far. After attending a classified briefing Tuesday, he told reporters around 4,000 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan. The numbers provided by the official jives with estimates recently given out by Republican Texas Rep. (RELATED: ‘Your Death Is Eminent’: Taliban Reportedly Hands Down Death Sentence For Brother Of Afghan Translator) “I’d be reticent to get too much more specific than that, but since the 14th, we believe we have been able to evacuate several thousand Americans,” Kirby told reporters. Both Kirby and National Security advisor Jake Sullivan declined to give a more specific number, and the reasoning varied from non-answers to the “fluid” evacuation process going on in Kabul.

These internal numbers have been masked by the White House and Pentagon in recent days, with Pentagon press secretary John Kirby saying Monday that “several thousand” Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan. The official added that it seems “doubtful we are going to bring in 8,000 more Americans” between now and the Aug. The DOJ’s internal watchdog confirmed on Friday that it would investigate the subpoenas for records on Democratic lawmakers, as well as reports that the Trump administration also sought phone and email records for various journalists.Roughly 3,800 Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since July 29 and an estimated 8,000 remain in the country, an official with direct knowledge of the situation told the Daily Caller on Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (Ill.) on Friday called for multiple investigations into the DOJ’s reported 20 subpoenas, as well as for Sessions and another one of Trump’s attorneys general, William Barr, to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Times reported that prosecutors under then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions were looking to identify sources who may have been speaking to members of the media in relation to communications between Trump associates and Russia. The statements comes a day after The New York Times reported that Trump administration officials had in 20 seized Apple records in connection with at least a dozen people, including House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), as well as family members and at least one minor. The Hill has reached out to Apple for additional information.

We will continue to aggressively seek reform that imposes reasonable limits on government secrecy in cases like this.” “We then provided a briefing to the representative’s staff following that notice. “As soon as the gag order expired, we notified the customer who told us they were a congressional staffer,” the spokesperson added. “As we’ve said before, we believe customers have a constitutional right to know when the government requests their email or documents, and we have a right to tell them,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Consistent with the request, Apple limited the information it provided to account subscriber information and did not provide any content such as emails or pictures,” the company added in its statement.ĬNN reported that the nondisclosure order subsequently had three extensions, each lasting a year, but notified affected customers of the subpoena last month when the order was not extended for a fourth time.Ī Microsoft spokesperson told The Hill Friday that it also received a subpoena in 2017 related to a congressional staffer’s personal email account, but was prevented from notifying the staffer for more than two years due to a gag order. The company added that the request “provided no information on the nature of the investigation and it would have been virtually impossible for Apple to understand the intent of the desired information without digging through users’ accounts.” The Justice Department (DOJ) under former President Trump in seeking information on lawmakers demanded metadata on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses from Apple, the tech giant said in a Friday statement shared with multiple news outlets.Īpple said it had received the subpoena for data as issued by a federal grand jury in February 2018, along with a “nondisclosure order signed by a federal magistrate judge,” according to reports from CNN and TechCrunch.

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