.HouseForeignGOP Chairman RepMcCaul will “revisit” holding SecBlinken in contempt of Congress if he refuses to let the committee view a key Afghan dissent cable.
Rep. Michael McCaul announced in May that he would be holding a hearing this month to hold Blinken in contempt for defying the congressional subpoena, but the contempt vote was put on hold after the State Department caved slightly and allowed McCaul and Rep. Gregory Meeks , the committee’s ranking member, to look at a somewhat redacted version of the July 2021 cable from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul last Tuesday.
Darin Hoover, the father of Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed at Abbey Gate, told the Washington Examiner that Blinken’s deal to limit the viewing of the cable to two members of Congress was “bullcrap.” “While I paused efforts to enforce the Committee’s subpoena pending my review of the documents, I did so with the express stipulations that the subpoena remains in full force and effect, and that acceptance of this accommodation did not waive any of the Committee’s rights,” McCaul said. “Should the Department continue to refuse to provide the entire Committee the same opportunity Ranking Member Meeks and I had to review these documents, I will need to revisit my current position.
“The Department waited nearly two years after the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to provide just two Members of Congress with access to documents showing the dire warnings by career officials that went unheeded, with tragic consequences,” McCaul told Blinken. “I strongly urge you to do the right thing and provide access to the documents to all Committee members and to the American people.
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