<p>Two key documents cautioning U.S. officials about a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan before withdrawing in 2021 revealed President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration failed to heed specific warnings, a top House Republican said.</p>
<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Greg Meeks (D-NY) on Wednesday gained access to a 2021 dissent cable written by Kabul embassy officials from the U.S. State Department, according to <a href="https://punchbowl.news/newsletter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Punch Bowl News</a>. The lawmakers viewed the documents, which reportedly urged allies to evacuate immediately before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;The dissenters were absolutely right about everything they said,&#8221; McCaul told Punchbowl News. &#8220;And it was a warning to the administration about what was going to happen and what they needed to do. [The dissenters] deserve a medal.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the administration didn&#8217;t heed all their warnings, and we got what we got,&#8221; McCaul added.</p>
<p>After nearly two decades, Biden withdrew U.S. military presence from Afghanistan in August 2021. Thousands of people concerned with living under the Taliban&#8217;s brand of Islamist rule went to the airport in Kabul in an attempt to flee the country. The last troop plane departed after a weeks-long chaotic evacuation, which led to a terrorist attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 civilians, and left up to $24 billion worth of weapons and equipment in the hands of the Taliban.</p>
<p>The Republican lawmaker previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republicans-signal-charging-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-key-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the American people, veterans, and Gold Star families deserve the right to know the thought process happening inside the embassy to dissent from the policy, including Blinken&#8217;s response to the dissenting cable that led to the collapse of Afghanistan that culminated in the killing of 13 service members.</p>
<p>Meeks told Punchbowl News that the key documents contained no new revelations.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing really that we didn&#8217;t know,&#8221; Meeks said. &#8220;There was a dissent cable; there was a reply and action that was being done.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Hopefully, that puts to rest this whole thing about having a subpoena, and the president is hiding something or whatever it is,&#8221; he added. &#8220;That should be put to rest.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCaul obtained the classified documents after months of battling Secretary of State Antony Blinken and State Department officials to hand over the report. He also threatened Blinken with a contempt of Congress charge from as soon as May 24 — the first time in U.S. history that lawmakers would take action against a sitting Secretary of State, according to the Republican.</p>
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<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t take this lightly because a Secretary of State&#8217;s never been held in contempt by Congress before,&#8221; McCaul told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/state-department-grants-access-biden-afghanistan-documents-gop-threatens-contempt-charge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>. &#8220;And I think the secretary realizes that and the gravity. They probably prefer not to go down this route as well.&#8221;</p>
<p>State Department officials argue the committee received the classified briefings with a written summary of the dissent, but McCaul said the &#8220;misleading&#8221; information turned over has been &#8220;insufficient.&#8221;</p>
<p>McCaul reportedly continues to push for all committee members to view the documents at the State Department and has not disclosed if lawmakers canceled holding Blinken in contempt of Congress.</p>

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