Multiple key HouseForeignGOP members are harshly criticizing the StateDept for continuing to withhold a key Afghanistan dissent cable from them.
The State Department announced last Wednesday that it would allow Rep. Michael McCaul , chairman of the committee, and Rep. Gregory Meeks , its ranking member, to look at a somewhat redacted version of the July 2021 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul after the GOP had moved toward holding Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt over his refusal to comply with a congressional subpoena to make the document available.
House Republicans have argued since late 2021 that the Biden administration has been stonewalling McCaul’s investigations into the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which ended with a chaotic evacuation, a Taliban takeover, hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghan allies left behind, and 13 U.S. service members killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing.
House Republicans have grown frustrated after Blinken repeatedly refused to hand over the cable, which was signed by two dozen embassy staffers in Kabul and sent to the State Department in mid-July 2021, just over a month before the Taliban took over the country. The cable is known to have criticized the State Department’s planning for the coming evacuation and warned that Kabul could collapse soon after the U.S. moved to withdraw its troops.
Mills, a veteran of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, added that “this is personal to me,” and so, “I demand transparency not just for the entire House Foreign Affairs committee but for the American people.” Rep. Darrell Issa told the Washington Examiner that “contempt of Blinken is 100% still on the table, and it has to be, because after so many lies, this administration can’t be trusted to tell the truth about its Afghanistan disaster.” Issa added that “GOP Foreign Affairs Committee members — including Chairman McCaul — are clear that the offer from Blinken is incomplete and unacceptable.”
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