House GOP Subpoenas Blinken for Key Documents on Afghanistan Withdrawal
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has signed a subpoena for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to obtain a July 2021 Dissent Channel cable and the Secretary’s response.
Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) requested the cable that is believed to have warned the administration of a lack of proper preparation for President Joe Biden’s unilateral decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, according to the Foreign Affairs Committee’s March 27 press release on the subpoena.
The July 2021 Dissent Channel cable was written by 23 State Department officials working in the Kabul Embassy.
According to the committee, despite McCaul offering to review the document on camera and the State Department being allowed to redact the names of signatories to protect their privacy, they refused to provide the documents….