McCall: The Biden administration is blocking the release of documents on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan

According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “Michael McCall, the head of the foreign relations committee of the US House of Representatives, stated that the foreign minister of this country, Anthony Blinken, has in many cases prevented the requests of Congress to receive documents about the “disastrous” withdrawal from Afghanistan.

McCall wrote in a statement that if Blinken does not present the findings of the “After Action Review” team on the withdrawal from Afghanistan to Congress by March 6, he will be arrested on charges of “contempt of Congress.”

The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives has stated: “The State Department did not negotiate in good faith and did not comply with the committee’s July 2023 subpoena and the August 11 personal commitment to cooperate with He emphasized that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has so far handed over most of the public documents to this committee, which do not show that any of the officials of the Biden administration in Afghanistan. accept their failures and mistakes.

McCall had previously said that the documents provided by the US State Department It is repetitive and irrelevant about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The head of the foreign relations committee of the US House of Representatives had stated that the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are responsible for preparing the documents for the withdrawal from Afghanistan to the US Senate. They must prepare themselves for the “transcribed interview” by August 21 at the latest. Another issue of the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the amendment of laws in this field is on the table of the US Senate.

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