A top House Republican dismissed Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s “bulls***” excuses for not handing over a July 2021 dissent cable from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, and promised a subpoena against the State Department if it doesn’t comply by Monday’s end.
Rep. Michael McCaul , the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has argued since late 2021 that the Biden administration has been stonewalling his investigations into the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which ended with a chaotic evacuation, a Taliban takeover, hundreds of Americans and thousands of Afghan allies left behind, and 13 U.S. service members killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing.
“It is vital to me that we preserve the integrity of that process and that channel — that we not take any steps that could have a chilling effect on the willingness of others to come forward in the future,” Blinken said. He has used the “chilling effect” argument since 2021. Boyatt wrote to McCaul that a shouted “bulls***!” was his response to Kissinger’s claims that releasing the dissent cable could expose him to retribution because “I knew that any retribution would come from the State Department.” He wrote, “Henry Kissinger had a good reason to fight tooth and nail to suppress my Dissent and testimony. I was right about Cyprus and he was wrong.”
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