The Biden administration will launch a evaluate of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan subsequent month and can make it out there to Congress, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Wednesday.
“I am committed and determined to make that information available to Congress, and we will do that by mid-April,” Blinken informed senators when he testified earlier than the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“We will share the findings and find the appropriate mechanism to do that within the next three weeks,” he stated.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby informed reporters on the White House that the administration expects “agencies themselves who conducted these after action reviews, will be able to share the classified reports with their relevant congressional oversight committees, again, on the same basic timeline of mid-April.”
Republican lawmakers have been accusing President Joe Biden of the “failed” withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, and the chaos on the Kabul airport in August 2021.
Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee requested paperwork associated to the withdrawal from Afghanistan from the State Department, to being an investigation into the controversial withdrawal.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul despatched a letter to Blinken on Tuesday as a follow-up on the requests, demanding the State Department launch the paperwork forward of the Secretary’s testimony to the Senate.
“Failure to produce these documents will result in the Committee issuing a subpoena to compel their production,” wrote McCaul.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
