{"id":2287880,"date":"2024-07-02T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-finally-caves-after-subpoena-warning-will-comply-with-house-foreign-affairs-committees-afghanistan-probe\/"},"modified":"2024-07-02T11:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:28:02","slug":"jen-psaki-finally-caves-after-subpoena-warning-will-comply-with-house-foreign-affairs-committees-afghanistan-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-finally-caves-after-subpoena-warning-will-comply-with-house-foreign-affairs-committees-afghanistan-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki Finally Caves After Subpoena Warning, Will Comply with House Foreign Affairs Committee\u2019s Afghanistan Probe"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fjen-psaki-finally-caves-after-subpoena-warning-will-comply-with-house-foreign-affairs-committees-afghanistan-probe%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=2287880&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--><p>Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has agreed\u2062 to be interviewed\u2063 by\u2063 the House Foreign Affairs Committee as they investigate the \u200cU.S. exit\u2062 from Afghanistan in\u2064 August 2021. The \u200dcommittee plans\u2062 to publish a report\u2064 on the Biden administration&#8217;s withdrawal\u200d from Afghanistan before the November election. This decision comes after \u200bmonths \u2064of reluctance from Psaki, who is now an MSNBC host. The committee aims to investigate the differences between what Psaki conveyed to \u2064the American\u200c people as the spokesperson for President Joe Biden and \u2063what the White House \u2064actually knew as Afghanistan collapsed, leaving many trapped in Kabul. The investigation follows the deaths of 13 \u2062American service\u200d members in\u2062 a terrorist attack during the chaotic withdrawal. The initial\u200d report\u2064 published condemned the actions of Biden and his administration, stating that they repeatedly delayed critical action\u2062 which \u200bled to \u2064a chaotic situation \u200cin\u200d Afghanistan.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 2, 2024 at 6:17am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki has surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Ending months of back-and-forth, Psaki has agreed to be interviewed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee as it investigates the August 2021 U.S. exit from Afghanistan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/07\/02\/scoop-jen-psaki-agrees-to-afghanistan-probe-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s chairman, Republican Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, has said the panel plans to publish its report on the Biden administration\u2019s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan before the November election.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul initially contacted Psaki, now an MSNBC host, in September, but he met resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Axios suggested the committee will be seeking the differences between what she was telling the American people as the spokeswoman for President Joe Biden and what the White House actually knew as Afghanistan collapsed in a matter of days, leaving thousands trapped in Kabul. The deaths of 13 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-biden-says-no-soldiers-died-watch-forgets-13-marines-killed-kabul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American service members<\/a> in a terrorist attack punctuated the chaos.<\/p>\n<p>On June 5, McCaul <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/press-release\/chairman-mccaul-sends-final-letter-requesting-psaki-testify-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-or-face-subpoena\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> Psaki\u2019s lawyers saying she already \u201chas published her insight into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan for public consumption and personal profit. Ms. Psaki\u2019s duty to appear before Congress is manifest, and her former employer\u2019s desire to avoid congressional oversight is not relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At that time, the chairman said he would subpoena her if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, the White House counsel\u2019s office told McCaul that the committee\u2019s request \u201craises serious separation-of-powers and Executive Branch confidentiality issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, it said, \u201cas an extraordinary accommodation, we will authorize Ms. Psaki to participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-agrees-to-be-interviewed-about-afghanistan-withdrawal-operation-report-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Jen Psaki agrees to be interviewed about Afghanistan withdrawal operation: Report - Washington Examiner\">voluntary transcribed interview accompanied<\/a> by personal counsel and the White House counsel\u2019s office subject to appropriate terms and conditions for the interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An interim report published before the 2022 elections that saw the Republicans take control of Congress condemned the actions of Biden and his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-report-biden-knowingly-mislead-public-on-afghanistan-exit\/\" title=\"House GOP Report: Biden Knowingly Mislead Public on Afghanistan Exit\">administration repeatedly delayed critical action<\/a> that was necessary to mitigate the likely consequences of the decision. The result of their inaction was a chaotic Non-combatant Evacuation Operation (NEO) where 13 U.S. servicemembers lost their lives and more than 800 Americans were abandoned behind enemy lines,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/HFAC-Republican-Interim-Report-A-22Strategic-Failure22-Assessing-the-Administrations-Afghanistan-Withdrawal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial report<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>It said that when Biden announced the withdrawal in April 2021, he made multiple claims to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/want-marine-injured-kabul-bombing-recounts-weird-hospital-visit-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, the Committee Minority now believes none of these claims were accurate. And worse, President Biden was likely aware they were not accurate when he made his case to the American people in April 2021,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration\u2019s own internal assessments understood that the Afghan military would be unable to defend the country from the Taliban without American air support, military advisors, and contractors, who they relied upon to enable the operation of the Afghan Air Force,\u201d it said. \u201cThe president was warned repeatedly that the return of the Taliban was a question of when, not if.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initial report said the \u201cadministration made almost no effort to evacuate Afghan partners who fought side-by-side with our military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It said the president and his aides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sick-new-detail-emerges-biden-gold-star-families-afghanistan-disaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deceived<\/a> the American people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration repeatedly misled the American people about the real situation on the ground in Kabul, issuing public statements that were in direct opposition to the internal reports being sent by the State Department and U.S. military,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite claiming a robust deliberation process on withdrawal, senior Biden administration officials acknowledge that the recommendations of senior military advisors, diplomats and allies were ignored,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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The committee is seeking to understand the discrepancies between what Psaki told the public as the spokesperson for President Biden and what the White House actually knew during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The interim report published before the 2022 elections criticized the Biden administration for its handling of the situation, stating that the administration misled the American people about the situation on the ground in Kabul. The report also highlighted the administration&#8217;s failure to evacuate Afghan partners who had fought alongside the U.S. military<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":2287881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Jen-Psaki.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33671,21871,33670,33606,7836],"class_list":["post-2287880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-afghanistan-probe","tag-compliance","tag-house-foreign-affairs-committee","tag-jen-psaki","tag-subpoena"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Jen-Psaki.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287880","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}