CNN: McCaul politician wants to hold Blinken accountable for contempt of Congress
U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul intends to hold the country’s Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in contempt of Congress over lawmakers’ investigation into the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, CNN reported.
“House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul is threatening to hold Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in contempt of Congress over the investigation into the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan,” the publication said.
According to the publication, McCaul sent a letter to Blinken after the secretary of state testified before Congress in March on the withdrawal of troops in 2021. According to the Republican congressman, the State Department provided “incomplete” information, causing the foreign affairs agency to “breach its statutory duty” and must now immediately provide the full data.
“McCaul gives Blinken a third deadline of 11 May to comply voluntarily or he will go further in the contempt proceedings,” the broadcaster reports.
The State Department called McCaul’s move an “unproductive action” and regretted it.
McCaul has already twice demanded documents from Blinken on the “disastrous withdrawal” of US troops from Afghanistan. The committee has requested documents from the State Department accompanying the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan since August 2021, but the requests have never been fully met.
In early August 2021, the Taliban intensified their offensive against government forces in Afghanistan, entered Kabul on 15 August and declared the war over the following day. For the last two weeks of August, there was a mass evacuation of Western nationals and cooperating Afghans from the airport in Kabul, which was under the protection of the U.S. military. On the night of August 31, the U.S. military withdrew from Kabul airport, ending nearly 20 years of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan.
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