US House committee threatens to subpoena State Dept over Afghan documents
You can be sure that, if Biden wants to hide it, it's something that will make him look really bad . . .
March 21, 202311:40 AM CDTLast Updated 6 days ago
WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee threatened to issue a subpoena if the State Department does not produce documents it has requested related to the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the committee said on Tuesday.
Representative Michael McCaul sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting the information before Blinken's testimony to the committee on Thursday.
The letter, dated March 20, noted that McCaul had sent a comprehensive document request on the withdrawal on Jan. 12, and a follow-up letter on March 3, among other requests.
The State Department generally does not comment on its correspondence with Congress, but is "committed to working with Congress to appropriately accommodate their legitimate need for information to help them conduct oversight for legislative purposes," a spokesperson said.
Blinken is due to testify to congressional committees in both the Senate and House this week.
Republicans have launched a series of investigations of Democratic President Joe Biden's administration since they took control of the House in January.
McCaul had said even before becoming committee chairman that he wants to look into the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and events in the country since, noting that there has never been a full accounting of the chaotic operation, in which 13 U.S. service members were killed at Kabul's airport.
Hundreds of U.S. citizens and many thousands of Afghans who had worked with American forces were left behind.
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Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, additional reporting by Simon Lewis; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Sandra Maler
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Patricia Zengerle has reported from more than 20 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. An award-winning Washington-based national security and foreign policy reporter who also has worked as an editor, Patricia has appeared on NPR, C-Span and other programs, spoken at the National Press Club and attended the Hoover Institution Media Roundtable. She is a recipient of the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.
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