Republicans search information from Biden administration over 2021 frenetic troop pullout from Afghanistan, the place Washington spent $2 trillion over 20 years.
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Republicans have launched an investigation into the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan that sparked a lightning takeover of the war-ravaged nation by the Taliban and the dying of 13 American troops in a militant assault that additionally killed round 190 Afghan locals.
Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stated on Friday he had written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an array of information, from intelligence assessments to communications with the Taliban.
“It is absurd and disgraceful that the Biden administration has repeatedly denied our longstanding oversight requests and continues to withhold information related to the withdrawal,” stated McCaul, a longstanding opposition member on the panel who turned its chairman after the House flipped to Republican management at the beginning of the 12 months.
“In the event of continued noncompliance, the committee will use the authorities available to it to enforce these requests as necessary, including through a compulsory process.”
The US troopers have been killed on August 26, 2021, in a bombing exterior Kabul’s airport because the capital fell, with the federal government crumbling days later regardless of $2 trillion pumped into Afghanistan over 20 years.
Biden’s dealing with of pullout underneath scanner
Images of crowds storming parked planes, climbing atop plane, and a few clinging to a departing US army cargo airplane because it rolled down the runway, have been aired all over the world.
The scenes preceded a pointy drop in President Joe Biden’s approval rankings, 9 months after he was elected, promising clean, competent management after the pandemonium underneath his predecessor Donald Trump.
While Trump sealed the withdrawal with the Taliban, his Republican Party has roundly criticised Biden’s dealing with of the operation and vowed hearings as a part of a collection of probes into his administration.
The State Department didn’t reply instantly to a request for remark however says it has supplied greater than 150 briefings to members of Congress for the reason that August 2021 withdrawal, based on US media.
Around 2,500 US troops have been killed in America’s longest warfare, however Afghanistan is not a precedence again residence, with 50 p.c of respondents to a Gallup ballot performed a 12 months after the withdrawal saying your complete warfare was a mistake.
Source: AFP
