{"id":1933696,"date":"2023-05-19T00:55:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccaul-accepts-state-department-offer-to-view-afghan-dissent-cable-pauses-subpoena-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T00:57:20","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T04:57:20","slug":"mccaul-accepts-state-department-offer-to-view-afghan-dissent-cable-pauses-subpoena-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccaul-accepts-state-department-offer-to-view-afghan-dissent-cable-pauses-subpoena-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"McCaul agrees to view Afghan dissent cable from State Department and halts subpoena enforcement."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fmccaul-accepts-state-department-offer-to-view-afghan-dissent-cable-pauses-subpoena-enforcement%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=1933696&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 Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman to View Dissent Cable on Afghanistan Withdrawal<\/h2>\n<p>After months of tension, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul has accepted the State Department&#8217;s offer to view a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-introduce-articles-of-impeachment-to-remove-antony-blinken-from-office-over-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Republicans Introduce Articles Of Impeachment To Remove Antony Blinken From Office Over Afghanistan\">dissent cable<\/a> from the time of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. This move comes after the department sent a letter to the committee on May 17, offering McCaul and the committee&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tom-carper-announces-bill-to-give-d-c-statehood\/\" title=\"Sen. Tom Carper announces bill to give D.C. statehood\">ranking member<\/a>, Rep. Gregory Meeks, the chance to view the cable at the State Department with <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>Committee Chairman Eager to Review Documents<\/h3>\n<p>In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, McCaul expressed his eagerness to view the documents as soon as possible. He also stated that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccaul-accepts-state-department-offer-to-view-afghan-dissent-cable-pauses-subpoena-enforcement\/\" title=\"McCaul agrees to view Afghan dissent cable from State Department and halts subpoena enforcement.\">pause efforts<\/a> to enforce the committee&#8217;s subpoena while he reviewed the documents, but emphasized that the subpoena remained in full force and effect.<\/p>\n<h3>Call for Transparency<\/h3>\n<p>McCaul also called for other members of the committee to be able to access the cable, stating that he was leading the oversight efforts but not to the exclusion of other members. He insisted that the department allow other members to review the dissent cable and response.<\/p>\n<h3>Refusal to Release Cable<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the subpoena, Blinken has repeatedly refused to give the cable to the committee. However, with McCaul&#8217;s acceptance of the State Department&#8217;s offer, there may be hope for increased transparency and accountability regarding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael McCaul, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has agreed to review a dissent cable related to the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The State Department offered the cable to McCaul, who accepted it during a briefing on May 17. After months of tension, the department sent a letter to the committee&#8217;s principal deputy spokesperson, Vedant Patel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1933697,"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":[6782,7174,13128,4724,13729,5052,4372,13724,7836,5963],"class_list":["post-1933696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-afghan","tag-agrees","tag-cable","tag-department","tag-dissent","tag-enforcement","tag-halts","tag-mccaul","tag-subpoena","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\/1933696","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=1933696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1933696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1933697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1933696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1933696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}