{"id":1926582,"date":"2023-05-08T12:27:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-threatens-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-response-to-subpoena\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:31:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T16:31:40","slug":"house-gop-threatens-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-response-to-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-threatens-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-response-to-subpoena\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP warns Blinken of Congress contempt for not complying with subpoena."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fhouse-gop-threatens-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-response-to-subpoena%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=1926582&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--><h2>Republican Chairman Threatens Secretary of State with Contempt of Congress<\/h2>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Happening?<\/h3>\n<p>The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Michael McCaul, has threatened Secretary of State Antony Blinken with contempt of Congress if he does not comply with a subpoena seeking a classified cable related to the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h3>Why is This Important?<\/h3>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-u-s-officials-in-afghanistan-warned-biden-admin-in-july-about-dire-conditions-report-says\/\" title=\"BREAKING: U.S. Officials In Afghanistan Warned Biden Admin In July About Dire Conditions, Report Says\">dissent channel<\/a>&#8221; cable sent in July 2021 warned top officials of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-blasts-biden-for-decision-to-pull-troops-from-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Hillary Clinton Blasts Biden For Decision To Pull Troops From Afghanistan\">potential collapse<\/a> of Kabul soon after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. The State Department has said some information can only be shared with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-if-youre-looking-for-election-rigging-look-no-further-than-media-treatment-of-hunter-biden-saga\/\" title=\"FNC's Carlson: 'If You're Looking for Election Rigging, Look No Further' Than Media Treatment of Hunter Biden Saga\">senior officials<\/a> to protect the identity of those expressing dissent. McCaul has launched an investigation into the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and events there since. Republicans &#8211; and some Democrats &#8211; say there has never been a full accounting of the chaotic operation, in which 13 U.S. service members were killed at Kabul&#8217;s airport.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next?<\/h3>\n<p>The department must comply or assert a legal basis to withhold the documents no later than May 11 at 6:00 pm EDT (2200 GMT). &#8220;As noted above, should the Department fail to comply with its legal obligation, the Committee is prepared to take the necessary steps to enforce its subpoena, including holding you in contempt of Congress and\/or initiating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-threatens-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-response-to-subpoena\/\" title=\"GOP warns Blinken of Congress contempt for not complying with subpoena.\">civil enforcement proceeding<\/a>,&#8221; the letter said.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Republican Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Michael McCaul, has threatened Secretary of State Antony Blinken with contempt of Congress if he does not comply with a subpoena seeking a classified cable related to the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;dissent channel&#8221; cable sent in July 2021 warned top officials of the potential collapse of Kabul soon after the withdrawal of U.S. troops.<\/li>\n<li>The department must comply or assert a legal basis to withhold the documents no later than May 11 at 6:00 pm EDT (2200 GMT).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Stay tuned for updates on this developing story.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee threatened Secretary of State Antony\u00a0Blinken\u00a0with contempt of Congress if he does not comply with a subpoena seeking a classified cable related to the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. In a letter to\u00a0Blinken\u00a0dated Friday and released on Monday, Representative Michael McCaul said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1926583,"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":[544],"tags":[4636,19266,4402,7074,6203,7836,3633],"class_list":["post-1926582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-blinken","tag-complying","tag-congress","tag-contempt","tag-gop","tag-subpoena","tag-warns"],"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\/1926582","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}