{"id":751187,"date":"2021-09-14T11:35:24","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=751187"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:35:27","slug":"sen-menendez-threatens-to-subpoena-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-over-his-refusal-to-answer-for-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-menendez-threatens-to-subpoena-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-over-his-refusal-to-answer-for-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Menendez Threatens To Subpoena Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Over His Refusal To Answer For Afghanistan"},"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\">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%2Fsen-menendez-threatens-to-subpoena-defense-secretary-lloyd-austin-over-his-refusal-to-answer-for-afghanistan%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=751187&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Bob-Menendez-scaled-e1631632398324.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"36.446808510638\">\n<p>Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez threatened to \u201ccompel\u201d Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed that Secretary Austin declined our request to testify today,\u201d Menendez, the committee chairman, said in his opening remarks to an appearance by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect the secretary will avail himself to the committee in the near future and if he does not, I may consider the use of committee subpoena power to compel him and others over the course of these last 20 years to testify,\u201d Menendez said.<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/11\/disturbing-gen-jack-keane-leaving-taliban-control-afghanistan-looms-heavy-over-9-11-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018ISIS Will Have An Opportunity To Grow\u2019: Gen. Jack Keane Says Leaving Taliban In Control Of Afghanistan \u2018Looms Heavy\u2019 Over 9\/11 Anniversary)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA full accounting of the U.S. response to this crisis is not complete without the pentagon especially when it comes to understanding the complete collapse of the U.S.-trained and funded afghan military,\u201d he continued. \u201cHis decision not to appear before the committee will affect my personal judgment on the department of defense nominees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Menendez also asked the Biden administration \u201cto remain focused on Afghanistan\u201d and that the \u201cworld bear witness and take action\u201d against political and religious abuses from the Taliban. The senator also said the response from the White House throughout the Afghanistan withdrawal has \u201coften been vague or contradictory.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/12\/former-green-beret-rep-mike-waltz-taliban-pulling-young-boys-killing-eradicate-future-opposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Former Green Beret Rep. Waltz: \u2018Taliban Are \u2026 Pulling Out Young Boys And Killing Them\u2019 To Eradicate Any Future Opposition)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/senate-armed-services-committee-hold-open-hearings-testimony-lloyd-austin-mark-milley-kenneth-mckenzie-jack-reed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has also invited<\/a>&nbsp;Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley to attend an open hearing in order to answer questions about the Afghanistan withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/29\/blinken-us-never-gave-taliban-lists-names-then-details-lists-names-us-gave-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secretary of state\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;testimony on the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/01\/biden-white-house-spin-dodge-what-went-wrong-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/05\/mark-milley-afghanistan-civil-war-al-qaeda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">withdrawal<\/a> follows his Sept. 5-8 trip to Doha, Qatar, and Ramstein, Germany. The State Department described the trip as a way for Blinken to thank American allies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez threatened to \u201ccompel\u201d Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.WATCH: \u201cI\u2019m very disappointed that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751187","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=751187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}