{"id":1875695,"date":"2023-03-13T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mccaul-plans-to-issue-subpoena-if-state-refuses-afghanistan-withdrawal-document-request\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T18:57:35","slug":"rep-mccaul-plans-to-issue-subpoena-if-state-refuses-afghanistan-withdrawal-document-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mccaul-plans-to-issue-subpoena-if-state-refuses-afghanistan-withdrawal-document-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. McCaul Plans to Issue Subpoena If State Refuses Afghanistan Withdrawal Document Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frep-mccaul-plans-to-issue-subpoena-if-state-refuses-afghanistan-withdrawal-document-request%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1875695&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>Home Overseas Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) stated Sunday he&#8217;s ready to concern a subpoena if the State Division fails to cooperate with the committee\u2019s doc manufacturing request on the Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Department has not been compliant with our document request,\u201d McCaul <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/mccaul-threatens-subpoena-if-state-continues-withholding-documents-on-disastrous-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">advised<\/a> Margaret Brennan on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCaul stated he met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and had a \u201cvery cordial conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCooperation is always key,\u201d McCaul stated. \u201cBut they\u2019re not cooperating. If he fails to cooperate with my document production request by, you know, the time he testifies on March 23, I am prepared to issue a subpoena.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCaul led a full committee <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/mccaul-calls-veterans-to-testify-catastrophic-impact-of-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">listening to<\/a> final week to look at the Biden administration\u2019s function within the abrupt evacuation of the U.S. navy from Afghanistan in August 2021, ensuing within the Taliban regaining management of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Through the closing days of U.S. navy involvement, the administration performed an evacuation effort to fly U.S. residents and Afghans out of the war-torn nation. The occasion result in a suicide bombing at Hamid Karazai Worldwide Airport that killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/timeline\/us-war-afghanistan\">13 U.S. troops and 170 civilians.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The March 9 committee listening to witnessed Marine Corps sniper Tyler Vargas-Andrews <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/mccaul-calls-veterans-to-testify-catastrophic-impact-of-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">recount<\/a>\u00a0how his warnings of a possible suicide bomber have been disregarded by commanders moments earlier than the Kabul airport explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had eyes on these two individuals that fit this exact description we were given from our intel assets,\u201d Vargas-Andrews <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/mccaul-calls-veterans-to-testify-catastrophic-impact-of-afghanistan-withdrawal\/\">stated<\/a>. \u201cBoth myself and my team leader asked for engagement authority and he responded [that] he did not have that authority, so we asked who did, and he told us he did not know and would go find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCaul stated probably the most traumatic a part of the occasions of the bombing was that Vargas-Andrews had the suicide bomber in his sights, however when it was run up the chain of command, the commanding officer stated he didn&#8217;t have the authority for permission to have interaction and by no means adopted up with the troops on who did.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point is they could have taken out this threat,\u201d McCaul stated. \u201cIt could have been avoided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whereas the State Division <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/03\/05\/gop-house-spotlights-afghanistan-exit\">stated they&#8217;ve briefed Congress greater than 150 instances<\/a> because the withdrawal, McCaul referenced Vargas-Andrews for example of data that has not been shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need these documents because this stuff has never been brought out to the public,\u201d McCaul stated. \u201cI intend to move forward with this investigation and want what that commanding officer was thinking when he denied permission to take out a threat and what levels did it go to within the United States government? I think those are all very important questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCaul stated that although Blinken desires to cooperate with the investigation and be clear to the American folks, the attorneys are combating the excellent doc manufacturing request that focuses on a number of areas of the administration\u2019s planning of the withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the dissent cable, an extraordinary measure to have 23 members of the State Department at the embassy dissenting with the policy, the action report from the ambassador, but also, the plan of evacuation. Just a simple plan of evacuation. What was your plan?\u201d McCaul stated. \u201cThey have failed to deliver that to Congress. Those are three key areas that we want to see compliance with.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> &#8230;..<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> &#8220;Proceed Studying Extra From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/rep-mccaul-plans-to-issue-subpoena-if-state-refuses-afghanistan-withdrawal-document-request_5119243.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=conservnewsd\">Rep. McCaul Plans to Problem Subpoena If State Refuses Afghanistan Withdrawal Doc Request<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday he is prepared to issue a subpoena if the State Department fails to cooperate with the committee\u2019s document production request on the Afghanistan withdrawal. \u201cThe State Department has not been compliant with our document request,\u201d McCaul told Margaret Brennan on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d McCaul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1832,"featured_media":1895790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7228,11014,4174,13724,3641,3768,7129,4451,7836,8050],"class_list":["post-1875695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-afghanistan","tag-document","tag-issue","tag-mccaul","tag-plans","tag-refuses","tag-rep","tag-request","tag-subpoena","tag-withdrawal"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1895790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}