House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) said over the weekend that his committee was delayed in releasing its long-awaited report about the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan because the administration obstructed the investigation.
The damning 353-page report lays bare the administration’s failures as well as the ways that it “misled and, in some instances, directly lied to the American people at every stage of the withdrawal, from before the go-to-zero order until today.”
McCaul was asked by CBS News’ Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” on Sunday if the timing of the report’s release was related to the upcoming election.
“No,” McCaul responded. “It’s taken me two years to get to this point because of the obstruction. I’ve had to sort of subpoena after subpoena, move to compel, threaten to, you know, hold the secretary in contempt to get information, like after action reports, all these documents, testimonies that we finally got to.”
“Why is it important right now, Margaret? Because of the foreign policy is at stake,” he said. “What happened after Afghanistan impacted the world. Why? Because Putin responded by invading Ukraine two months after Afghanistan fell. Chairman Xi, Putin made an unwholly alliance in Beijing threatening the Pacific now. And then the Ayatollah reared his ugly head in the Middle East. And we’re seeing this.”
He said that the ISIS terrorist suspects who were arrested on U.S. soil after illegally crossing the southern border were released from Bagram prison during the withdrawal.
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He said that the investigation will continue past the election because there are a lot of questions that investigators have not had answered yet.
“We have a lot of unanswered questions regarding the DOD,” he said. “You know, what happened on the ground? Why were these snipers left basically unprotected? Where was the surveillance equipment that was videotaping? Why don’t we have one video of the suicide bomber going off?”
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.@RepMcCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, says the committee’s investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will go on “well after the election.”
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