House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman McCaul has issued a subpoena to the State Dept. in an effort to obtain a July 2021 cable from U.S. diplomats that warned of Kabul's potential collapse.
Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images fileWASHINGTON — 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 thatThe subpoena, which McCaul sent 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.
Before McCaul ultimately decided on the subpoena, he offered to review the document in a secure location, rather than having it physically delivered to the committee. He also offered to redact the names of the signers to protect their privacy, the Foreign Affairs Committee said. "The American people deserve answers as to how this tragedy unfolded, and why 13 U.S. service members lost their lives. We expect the State Department to follow the law and comply with this subpoena in good faith," he said.in August 2021 by the Islamic State terror group outside Kabul's airport where Americans and allies were being evacuated from Afghanistan.
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