{"id":1937490,"date":"2023-05-24T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-foreign-affairs-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable-mccaul-wants-all-committee-members-to-see-it\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T23:27:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T03:27:55","slug":"house-foreign-affairs-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable-mccaul-wants-all-committee-members-to-see-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-foreign-affairs-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable-mccaul-wants-all-committee-members-to-see-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs leaders review Afghan dissent cable; McCaul wants all committee members to view it."},"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\">30<\/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-foreign-affairs-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable-mccaul-wants-all-committee-members-to-see-it%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=1937490&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 and Ranking Member Viewed Dissent Cable on Afghanistan Withdrawal<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0524\/2b839228-bb28-43bc-bd99-3fa955fce3fa\/audio.mp3?length=1986669&#038;duration=166\"><\/div>\n<p>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), a <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> of the committee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fall-of-andrew-cuomo-how-an-empire-built-on-fear-came-crashing-down\/\" title=\"The Fall Of Andrew Cuomo: How An Empire Built On Fear Came Crashing Down\">recently viewed<\/a> a dissent cable from the time of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan at the State Department.<\/p>\n<h3>The Dissenters Were Right<\/h3>\n<p>Although the classified information in the cable cannot be discussed, McCaul stated that &#8220;the dissenters were right\u2013and the administration should have listened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The committee had subpoenaed Secretary of State Antony Blinken in March for the cable, which warned about the Taliban quickly gaining ground and the Afghan forces falling apart. The cable also gave suggestions on how to expedite an evacuation and alleviate the situation.<\/p>\n<h3>State Department Urged to Release Cable<\/h3>\n<p>The cable, dated July 13, 2021, also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was completed on Aug. 30, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul is calling on the State Department to allow other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-public-schools-renaming-plan-rife-with-historical-errors\/\" title=\"San Francisco Public Schools Renaming Plan \u2018Rife With Historical Errors\u2019\">committee members<\/a> to view the cable and will decide on the next course of action if the department continues to block access.<\/p>\n<h3>Takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-foreign-affairs-leaders-view-afghan-dissent-cable-mccaul-wants-all-committee-members-to-see-it\/\" title=\"Foreign Affairs leaders review Afghan dissent cable; McCaul wants all committee members to view it.\">dissent cable warned<\/a> about the Taliban&#8217;s rapid gains and the Afghan forces falling apart during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<li>The cable gave suggestions on how to expedite an evacuation and alleviate the situation.<\/li>\n<li>The cable also called for the State Department to use tougher language in describing the atrocities being committed by the Taliban.<\/li>\n<li>House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and Rep. Gregory Meeks viewed the cable and stated that &#8220;the dissenters were right\u2013and the administration should have listened.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>McCaul is calling on the State Department to allow other committee members to view the cable and will decide on the next course of action if the department continues to block access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important for the State Department to release the dissent cable to the public and allow for transparency in 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> during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 23, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) reviewed a dissent cable related to the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The cable was viewed at the State Department, according to McCaul, who declined to provide further details due to its classified nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1797,"featured_media":1937491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[10077,6782,13128,4384,13729,5542,7454,5061,13724,7289,5963],"class_list":["post-1937490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-affairs","tag-afghan","tag-cable","tag-committee","tag-dissent","tag-foreign","tag-it","tag-leaders","tag-mccaul","tag-review","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\/1937490","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=1937490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}