Matt Gaetz: Biden Admin Involved In Massive Cover-Up In Niger

As WLT Report covered last month, Niger’s military-controlled government announced it has broken off a previous agreement with the United States that allows U.S. troops to be stationed in Niger for strategic purposes.

In a statement in March, Colonel Major Amadou Abdramane of Niger stated, “The government of Niger, taking into account the aspirations and interests of its people, decides with full responsibility to denounce with immediate effect the agreement relating to the status of military personnel of the United States and civilian employees of the American Department of Defense in the territory of the Republic of Niger.”

The Biden admin has already discreetly removed 50% of U.S. troops from Niger, and 648 U.S. military personnel remain.

The MSM has mostly ignored the troop withdrawal, but Rep. Matt Gaetz exposed Biden’s disastrous withdrawal operations while speaking on the House Floor.

Gaetz shared that the Biden admin “is hiding the true conditions on the ground of U.S. diplomatic relations in Niger and are effectively abandoning our troops in that country with no help in sight.”

The fiery Florida representative later told the Intercept, “The Biden Administration and the State Department are engaged in a massive cover-up.”

Watch Gaetz expose the cover-up here:

Right now in Niger, the government has stopped the U.S. from doing diplomatic overflight missions.

We have Army soldiers in Niger who aren’t getting their troop rotations, their medicine, or even their basic supplies. I currently have constituents there who can’t even get clean… pic.twitter.com/DpMXb2AThY

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 18, 2024

Here’s what The Intercept reported:

THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION is “actively suppressing intelligence reports” about the state of U.S. military relations with Niger, according to a new report issued by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. U.S. military service members told Gaetz’s office that they can’t get medicine, mail, or other support from the Pentagon.U.S., Not Israel, Shot Down

“The Biden Administration and the State Department are engaged in a massive cover-up,” Gaetz told The Intercept. “They are hiding the true conditions on the ground of U.S. diplomatic relations in Niger and are effectively abandoning our troops in that country with no help in sight.”

Last month, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for Niger’s ruling junta, took to the national television network to denounce the United States and end the long-standing counterterrorism partnership between the two countries. Abdramane revoked his country’s agreement allowing U.S. troops and civilian Defense Department employees to operate in Niger, declaring that the security pact, in effect since 2012, violated Niger’s constitution.

The Pentagon has maintained in the month since that it is seeking clarification.

Gaetz’s report contends that the U.S. Embassy in Niger, under Ambassador Kathleen FitzGibbon, is “covering up the failure of their U.S. diplomatic efforts in Niger.” The report says the embassy is “dismissing or suppressing” intelligence from the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, or OSI, as well as Special Operations Command Africa.

“When our AFRICOM leaders look to us to provide atmospherics on the ground, they go to the Embassy first and hear a watered down or false story than what is being reported,” according to one service member quoted in the report. “I know of at least 3 reports from OSI about Nigerien sentiment that have been discredited by the Embassy and turned out to be 100% true.” (The State Department denied the allegations but did not provide a statement on the record.)

Joe Biden and Antony Blinken claimed that Niger would be the “centerpiece” of their Africa strategy. Then a coup happened.

Now 1100 American troops are stranded in Niger, being denied access to supplies, and at risk of another Benghazi-style attack.

But the State Department has… pic.twitter.com/9rGE3wUfdz

— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) April 19, 2024