The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said late Monday he would subpoena Secretary of State Antony Blinken for documents on the botched US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
and hundreds of Afghans in an ISIS suicide bombing at Kabul’s airport.
Rep. Michael McCaul asked the State Department to provide a “dissent cable” that warned about the collapse of Afghan security forces and gains made by the Taliban during the withdrawal.The two other items are an after-action report by career diplomat Daniel Smith and two versions of evacuation plans drawn up by the US Embassy in Afghanistan – one that was in place before the withdrawal and the final iteration used when it occurred.
The committee first requested the documents in a 23-point letter with a compliance deadline of Jan. 26. “Of the 218 pages produced, 88 consisted of a previously embargoed version of the Afghanistan Study Group’s Final Report – a document released to the public on Feb. 3, 2021,” he said. “On Feb. 10, 2023, the department made an additional production consisting of the texts of unclassified opening statements from a June 15, 2022 classified briefing on Afghanistan, totaling 18 pages.”of March 23 to produce the “three highly specific immediately priority items.
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