Republican issues subpoena for diplomatic cable warning of Kabul's 2021 collapse

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued a subpoena to the State Department regarding the Afghanistan withdraw.

WASHINGTON — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, has issued a subpoena to the State Department in an effort to obtain a July 2021 cable from U.S. diplomats that warned of Kabul's potential collapse.

The subpoena, which McCaul said he was sending to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, calls for the dissent cable that was written by nearly two-dozen State Department officials working in the Kabul embassy at the time, as well as Blinken's response.

McCaul cited a 2021 report by the Wall Street Journal that said the cable warned that the Biden administration was not properly prepared for a full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was completed by the end of that August.

Providing the cable to Congress may have “a chilling effect on the willingness of others to come forward in the future, to express dissenting views,” Blinken said in testimony last week, and instead offered a classified briefing on the substance of the cable.

House Foreign Affairs Committee begins hearings on U.S. withdrawal from AfghanistanMarch 8, 202304:07The Foreign Affairs Committee said Monday that the cable, and Blinken's response to it, are "key documents because they reveal exactly what first-hand information the State Department’s own employees who were on the ground provided to Secretary Blinken about a month prior to evacuation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-issues-subpoena-diplomatic-cable-warning-kabuls-2021-collap-rcna76966


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