State Dept blocking private rescue flights from leaving Afghanistan, organizers say: 'Blood is on their hands'

Fox News has learned from individuals engaged in the ongoing private rescue efforts of those abandoned in Afghanistan by the Biden administration that the State Department has been putting up roadblocks obstructing their efforts.

Rick Clay, who runs the private rescue group PlanB, told Fox News that the State Department is the only thing preventing the flights he's organizing from leaving Afghanistan.  Two other American individuals separately involved in evacuation efforts, whom Fox News is not naming to avoid jeopardizing ongoing rescue efforts, similarly said that the State Department is the sole entity preventing their charter flights from leaving Afghanistan.  "This is zero place to be negotiating with American lives. Those are our people standing on the tarmac and all it takes is a f****ing phone call," one of those individuals, who has been integral to private evacuation efforts from Afghanistan, told Fox News.