The StateDept announced that it will allow HouseForeignGOP Chairman RepMcCaul to look at a July 2021 cable from the US Embassy in Afghanistan after the GOP moved toward holding SecBlinken in contempt over his refusal to make the document available.
Rep. Michael McCaul , chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and his allies had grown frustrated after Blinken repeatedly refused to hand over the cable, which was signed by two dozen embassy staffers in Kabul and sent to the State Department in mid-July 2021, just over a month before the Taliban took over the country. The cable is known to have criticized the State Department’s planning for the coming evacuation and warned that Kabul could collapse soon after the U.S.
McCaul had also demanded that the State Department hand over Blinken’s summer 2021 response to the cable, but Patel said he didn’t know if that was included in the offer to McCaul, telling reporters, “I’ll have to check on the specifics on that … but we’ll get back to you on that piece.” The cable in question, sent to Blinken and the State Department's director of policy planning, Salman Ahmed, reportedly warned about the collapse of the Afghan military and a near-term Taliban takeover, urging the State Department to speed up its evacuation planning, do more to deal with the glut of special immigrant visa applications, and help safeguard Afghans who had assisted U.S. forces in the country.
Mike Morell, a former Obama CIA acting director, recently told the House that Blinken “triggered” him to write an October 2020 letter denouncing the Hunter Biden laptop story as a hoax likely perpetrated by Russia.
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