House Foreign Affairs Chairman McCaul says he'll 'pause' enforcement of the committee’s subpoena for the State Dept. to produce a 2021 cable in which 23 U.S. diplomats warned of Kabul’s potential collapse soon after U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
at Kabul International Airport resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. service members and 170 Afghan civilians.
On Wednesday, the State Department said it would let the top two members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — McCaul and Meeks — view the 2021 dissent cable, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.
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