Remember that second instance of an elected person trying to get into Afghanistan?

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I think we found the guy:

Link to tweet

Will Sommer
@willsommer

Wild story: A Republican congressman has been asking US diplomats for help moving large amounts of cash to fund an amateur helicopter rescue mission into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Now his whereabouts are unknown.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mullin-afghanistan-trip/2021/08/31/62f63bb0-0a90-11ec-a256-709238a1404d_story.html

The call to the U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan came in Monday. On the line, two U.S. officials said, was Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) with an unusual and urgent request: He needed assistance in transporting a huge amount of cash into the country, saying he was going to neighboring Afghanistan to rescue five American citizens, a woman and her four children, stuck in the country. They planned to hire a helicopter for the effort...

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1. Someone Will Be Fired

For releasing that new script for the upcoming Tom Cruise movie: "Mission Impossible: Afghanistan"

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2. Is the money missing too?

Given the players involved... that's kind of a rhetorical question.

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3. He's a plumber.

Perhaps he wants to upgrade the toilet situation there.