The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to testify on Sept. 19 about the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The subpoena follows up on a May 22 request by committee’s chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) for Blinken to appear at a Sept. 19 hearing regarding the withdrawal.
“The committee is holding this hearing because the Department of State was central to the Afghanistan withdrawal and served as the senior authority during the August non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO),” McCaul wrote in a Sept. 3 letter. “As Secretary of State throughout the withdrawal and NEO, you were entrusted to lead these efforts and to secure the safe evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies.”…