House Republicans want to hold the Biden administration accountable for what they have called a “stunning failure of leadership.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken received a subpoena this week for an investigation into the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
On Tuesday, Republican Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the subpoena for Blinken’s “refusal to appear before the committee to testify on the Biden-Harris administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.”
“The Committee is holding this hearing because the Department of State was central to the Afghanistan withdrawal and served as the senior authority during the August non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO)”, McCaul wrote in a statement announcing the subpoena. “As Secretary of State throughout the withdrawal and NEO, you were entrusted to lead these efforts and to secure the safe evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies. In testimony before the Committee, current and former State Department officials have confirmed that you served as the final decisionmaker for the Department on the withdrawal and evacuation.
