{"id":1933256,"date":"2023-05-18T09:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-to-let-house-foreign-affairs-committee-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable\/"},"modified":"2023-05-18T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T13:57:14","slug":"state-department-to-let-house-foreign-affairs-committee-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-to-let-house-foreign-affairs-committee-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders can view Afghan dissent cable, says State Department."},"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\">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%2Fstate-department-to-let-house-foreign-affairs-committee-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable%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=1933256&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>Breaking News: State Department Agrees to Allow House Committee to View Dissent Cable<\/h2>\n<p>After months of tension and back-and-forth, the State Department has finally agreed to allow House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Democratic Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) to view a dissent cable from the time of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>During a briefing at the State Department, principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel announced that the department sent a letter to the committee on May 17 with an offer to view the dissent cable at the State Department in camera, with appropriate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-to-let-house-foreign-affairs-committee-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable\/\" title=\"House Foreign Affairs Committee leaders can view Afghan dissent cable, says State Department.\">personal information redacted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Secretary of State Antony Blinken Refused to Hand Over the Cable<\/h3>\n<p>This announcement comes after Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeatedly refused to hand over the cable in accordance with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-menendez-threatens-to-subpoena-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-over-his-refusal-to-answer-for-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Sen. Menendez Threatens To Subpoena Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Over His Refusal To Answer For Afghanistan\">committee subpoena<\/a>. The committee subpoenaed Blinken in March for the cable, which shows the U.S. Embassy in Kabul warning Foggy Bottom about the Taliban quickly gaining ground and the Afghan forces falling apart. They gave suggestions on how to expedite an evacuation and alleviate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The cable, dated July 13, also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<h3>What Does This Mean?<\/h3>\n<p>This is a significant development in the ongoing investigation into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The dissent cable could shed light on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/listen-elon-musk-presses-robinhood-ceo-about-gamestop-fiasco-restricted-trading\/\" title=\"LISTEN: Elon Musk Presses Robinhood CEO About GameStop Fiasco, Restricted Trading\">decision-making process<\/a> and provide insight into why the evacuation was so chaotic and deadly.<\/p>\n<h3>Stay Tuned for Updates<\/h3>\n<p>As this story continues to develop, we will keep you updated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hostage-situation-leaves-2-dead-in-austin-texas\/\" title=\"Hostage situation leaves 2 dead in Austin, Texas\">latest information<\/a>. Stay tuned for more updates on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-breaking-news-in-georgia-132000-ballots-in-fulton-county-georgia-have-been-identified-which-are-likely-ineligible\/\" title=\"HUGE BREAKING NEWS IN GEORGIA - 132,000 Ballots in Fulton County, Georgia Have Been Identified Which Are Likely Ineligible\">breaking news<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spokesperson Jalina Porter confirmed that the two lawmakers will be granted access to a dissent cable related to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, following months of negotiations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1933257,"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":[10077,6782,13128,4384,4724,13729,5542,3653,5061,5963],"class_list":["post-1933256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-affairs","tag-afghan","tag-cable","tag-committee","tag-department","tag-dissent","tag-foreign","tag-house","tag-leaders","tag-view"],"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\/1933256","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\/1797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}