Warren: State Department didn’t seek TRANSCOM aid in evacuating Americans from Middle East

The State Department did not task the U.S. Transportation Command, or TRANSCOM, with evacuating Americans who aren’t affiliated with the federal government from the Middle East after the start of the Iran war, according to responses provided by the military branch to Sen. Elizabeth Warren and shared first with CNBC.

In a May letter to Warren, which followed a request from the Massachusetts Democrat for more information on the evacuation operation in early March, TRANSCOM reported moving more than 1,500 people affiliated with the State Department. But on a series of questions about relocating other U.S. citizens in the region, the command said it “did not receive a tasking to move American civilians (non-U.S. government personnel).”

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