A new congressional report delves into the botched Afghanistan withdrawal that President Joe Biden forced “no matter the cost.” Significant information suggests Biden was repeatedly given warnings by the military and NATO allies, which “exposed American personnel to security threats and allowed the Taliban to quickly remake the country into a terrorist safe-haven” reports National Review.

According to the 354 page report compiled by the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Republican majority, Biden and his senior State Department officials were “hellbent” on getting every last U.S. troop out of Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, regardless of the security situation on the ground or the Taliban’s compliance with the previously negotiated Doha Agreement.

Specifically, the report determined that the Biden administration disregarded warnings that the Taliban was not holding up its end of the Doha agreement, which was negotiated by the Trump administration several years earlier. Additionally, advice was ignored from multiple top military officials and NATO allies to reconsider the Afghanistan departure.

“Mr. Biden has demonstrated distrust of America’s military experts and advisors and has prioritized politics and his personal legacy over America’s national security interests,” the report states.

In the report, significant blame is placed on the State Department’s decision to disregard senior military officials who repeatedly warned that the timeline for withdrawal was too short and that, if troops were to be drawn down rapidly, diplomatic personnel should be withdrawn at a similar pace for security reasons. Both of those arguments fell on deaf ears, according to the report. National Review writes:

Zalmay Khalilzad, the diplomat responsible for the Doha agreement, is accused of excluding the Afghan government from the negotiations and dismissing concerns that the Taliban were bad-faith negotiating partners. The report accuses Khalilzad of keeping military leaders in the dark during the negotiations and undermining the legitimacy of the Afghan government, accusations he countered on social media ahead of the report’s release.

“No agreement was made on any military issue without the full knowledge of our military leaders and their participation in decisions made by our leaders,” he said on X.

Against the military’s advice, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ross Wilson and secretary of state Antony Blinken pushed to keep the U.S. embassy in Kabul open, a decision general Kenneth McKenzie called the “fatal flaw” behind the Afghanistan mess. State Department officials even watered down and re-wrote warnings from diplomatic security and the Pentagon about the plan to maintain a large embassy presence to conceal how precarious the situation had become.

“This report proves senior Biden-Harris administration officials were willfully blind to warnings about the degrading security situation on the ground given to them by U.S. military personnel, U.S. intelligence assessments, American and international media reports, and State Department personnel in Kabul who sent a Dissent Channel cable in July 2021. Instead, they consistently prioritized the optics of maintaining a large U.S. embassy presence over the safety of embassy personnel,” the report reads.