{"id":2005791,"date":"2023-08-19T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T17:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-fails-to-provide-house-with-key-documents-related-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T13:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T17:10:46","slug":"blinken-fails-to-provide-house-with-key-documents-related-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-fails-to-provide-house-with-key-documents-related-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken fails to give House crucial Afghanistan withdrawal documents: Report."},"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\">20<\/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%2Fblinken-fails-to-provide-house-with-key-documents-related-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-report%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=2005791&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>Secretary\u200d of \u2064State\u2063 Blinken Fails\u2064 to Provide\u2064 Key Documents on Afghanistan Withdrawal<\/h2>\n<p>According to\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-claimed-hunter-did-not-make-money-from-china-nbc-says-otherwise-brings-receipts\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Claimed Hunter Did Not Make Money From China \u2014 NBC Says Otherwise, Brings Receipts\">news report published<\/a> on Saturday, Secretary of State Antony\u200b Blinken\u200d has\u200c failed\u200b to produce\u200c eight crucial \u2064documents to \u2063the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the withdrawal of American\u2064 forces from Afghanistan\u200d two\u200b years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department \u2063did provide the committee with\u2062 300 documents related to the Afghanistan withdrawal on Thursday. However, committee chairman \u200bMichael McCaul (R-TX) had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elite-private-academy-refuses-to-show-race-based-curriculum-to-parents\/\" title=\"Elite Private Academy Refuses To Show Race-Based Curriculum To Parents\">specifically requested<\/a> eight documents in a letter dated August \u20629, which were not included in \u200bthe submission. These documents, including memos from Assistant Secretary \u200bfor Diplomatic \u2062Security Todd Brown, were\u2063 identified \u200bin\u200c the Afghanistan After-Action Review.<\/p>\n<h3>Importance of the Missing Documents<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The AAR\u200d files are necessary to\u200b inform the Committee\u2019s consideration of potential legislation aimed at helping prevent\u200c the catastrophic mistakes of\u200b the withdrawal from happening again,&#8221; \u200dstated McCaul on August 10.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u2063 an unnamed\u200c committee source, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-fails-to-provide-house-with-key-documents-related-to-afghanistan-withdrawal-report\/\" title=\"Blinken fails to give House crucial Afghanistan withdrawal documents: Report.\">300 \u200ddocuments provided largely contained information<\/a> that \u200bwas already publicly\u2063 available.\u200c The deadline to provide all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-amy-coney-barrett-delivers-first-opinion\/\" title=\"Justice Amy Coney Barrett Delivers First Opinion\">requested documents<\/a> to the\u200d committee was Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the withdrawal have labeled it as &#8220;disastrous&#8221; following the Taliban takeover, which resulted in the deaths of over 170 people and 13 \u2063military servicemembers. McCaul is determined to obtain \u200dmore answers from the Biden administration regarding the evacuation, \u2064including\u200d information on\u2063 the denial of a \u200cpreemptive \u200bairstrike request despite U.S. intelligence knowing about an impending ISIS attack targeting Americans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will not \u2063rest until we get answers and accountability as to what \u200chappened,&#8221;\u200c declared McCaul. &#8220;How did this go so wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Findings of the After-Action\u2063 Report<\/h3>\n<p>The after-action report, published this summer, revealed that both the Biden and Trump administrations lacked \u200bsufficient senior-level consideration of \u200cworst-case\u200b scenarios and the\u200c speed at\u200b which they could unfold while striving to\u2063 meet the withdrawal deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The report also highlighted the overestimation of the now-defunct democratically elected Afghan government&#8217;s ability\u2063 to \u200dwithstand Taliban offensives. Additionally, it emphasized the clear lack\u200c of \u200ccommunication between the Pentagon and State Department, as well as\u2064 among leaders within\u200b these entities, which further \u200bexacerbated the situation.<\/p>\n<h3>White\u2063 House Response and Blinken&#8217;s Defense<\/h3>\n<p>The \u2063two-year \u2062anniversary of \u200cthe\u200b evacuation \u2063went unnoticed by\u200c the White House on Tuesday. However, Secretary Blinken maintained that the administration made the \u200cright decision \u200bin withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The decision to withdraw from Afghanistan was an incredibly difficult \u200cone, but\u200b also the right\u200b one,&#8221; Blinken told reporters. &#8220;We ended America\u2019s longest war.\u2063 For the first time in 20 years, we don\u2019t have another generation of young \u2063Americans going to fight and die in\u200c Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House officials did not confirm whether the president will address the withdrawal\u200c later this month but mentioned \u2063that the anniversary\u200c of the\u2063 full \u200bevacuation \u200coccurs at\u2063 the \u2062end of the month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to read more \u2064from The\u200b Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken couldn&#8217;t provide eight crucial documents to the House Foreign Affairs Committee regarding the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan two years ago. A news report revealed this on Saturday. Although the State Department shared 300 documents related to the withdrawal, the committee&#8217;s request for eight specific documents remained unfulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2005792,"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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2005791","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}