House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul is threatening to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress over his panel’s investigation into the US withdrawal from Afghanistan
, according to a letter the Texas Republican sent him Friday, a copy of which was obtained by CNN. The letter, the latest escalation in the panel’s investigation, comes after McCaul subpoenaed Blinken in March for a dissent cable written by US diplomats in Kabul criticizing the Biden administration’s plans to withdraw troops in 2021.
McCaul has pushed back the subpoena deadline multiple times – from April 4 to April 21 and then to May 1 – following a series of back-and-forth communications with the State Department. The Biden administration has made some moves to offer Congress more information about the withdrawal. The State Department provided the House Foreign Affairs Committee with a roughly one-page summary of the four-page dissent cable, as well as a summary of the department’s official response to the document.
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