{"id":1929943,"date":"2023-05-12T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-signal-charging-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-key-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:13:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T20:13:59","slug":"republicans-signal-charging-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-key-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-signal-charging-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-key-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP may charge Blinken with contempt over Afghanistan memo."},"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\">18<\/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%2Frepublicans-signal-charging-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-key-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo%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=1929943&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>House Republicans Threaten Contempt Charge Against Secretary of State Blinken<\/h2>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken may face a contempt of Congress charge from House Republicans as early as May 24. This comes after Blinken refused to turn over a key document warning U.S. officials about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-u-s-citizens-trapped-by-taliban-in-kabul-as-state-department-demands-foreign-nationals-be-allowed-to-leave\/\" title=\"Report: U.S. Citizens Trapped By Taliban In Kabul As State Department Demands Foreign Nationals Be Allowed To Leave\">deteriorating security situation<\/a> in Afghanistan before withdrawing in August 2021.<\/p>\n<h3>Republicans Demand Key Document<\/h3>\n<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told the Daily Mail that members of Congress gave Blinken and State Department officials \u201cample time\u201d to hand over the classified dissent report. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-signal-charging-blinken-with-contempt-of-congress-over-key-afghanistan-withdrawal-memo\/\" title=\"GOP may charge Blinken with contempt over Afghanistan memo.\">report reportedly urged allies<\/a> to evacuate immediately before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers said they would immediately pursue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/constitutional-crisis-or-political-war\/\" title=\"Constitutional Crisis or Political War\">legal proceedings<\/a> if Blinken missed the fourth deadline given to the official on Thursday to comply with the subpoena.<\/p>\n<h3>Committee Plans to Hold Blinken in Contempt<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve given them ample time,\u201d McCaul said. \u201cThree extensions of time we tried to work this out, but unfortunately, it doesn\u2019t appear that that\u2019s going to work, and the next step will be to move to contempt proceedings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCaul said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canadian-olympic-committee-warns-athletes-not-to-criticize-china\/\" title=\"Canadian Olympic Committee Warns Athletes Not to Criticize China\">committee plans<\/a> to meet on May 24 to hold Blinken in contempt and move the charge to the House of Representatives for a full vote. This would be the first time in U.S. history that lawmakers would take action against a sitting Secretary of State, according to the Republican.<\/p>\n<h3>Background on Afghanistan Withdrawal<\/h3>\n<p>President Joe Biden withdrew from Afghanistan on August 2021, ending two decades of U.S. military presence. The last troop plane departed after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appalled-and-literally-horrified-white-house-officials-say-biden-failed-afghanistan-withdrawal-report-says\/\" title=\"\u2018Appalled And Literally Horrified\u2019: White House Officials Say Biden Failed Afghanistan Withdrawal, Report Says\">weeks-long chaotic evacuation<\/a>, which led to a terrorist attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 civilians. The withdrawal also left potentially up to $24 billion worth of weapons and equipment in the hands of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican people and the veterans and the Gold Star families are right to know what the thinking was in the embassy at the time to take the extraordinary measure to dissent from the policy,\u201d McCaul said. \u201cWe also want to see Secretary Blinken\u2019s response to the dissenting cable to see what the state of mind was a month before the debacle and the collapse of Afghanistan, which culminated in the killing of 13 service men and women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If lawmakers hold Blinken in contempt of Congress, Biden\u2019s Department of Justice would have to comply with legal proceedings, but would likely forego taking action against the administration official.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Key Takeaway:<\/strong> House Republicans are threatening to hold Secretary of State Blinken in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over a key document related to the Afghanistan withdrawal. The committee plans to meet on May 24 to hold Blinken in contempt and move the charge to the House of Representatives for a full vote.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken could face a contempt of Congress charge from House Republicans as soon as May 24 after refusing to turn over a key document warning U.S. officials about a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan before withdrawing in August 2021. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) told the Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":1929944,"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":[541],"tags":[7228,4636,4170,7074,6203,17040],"class_list":["post-1929943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-afghanistan","tag-blinken","tag-charge","tag-contempt","tag-gop","tag-memo"],"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\/1929943","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}