The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is demanding that the State Department declassify and publicly release an 87-page review of the Biden administration's 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, says the administration's report on the Afghanistan withdrawal should be released.April 25, 2023, 6:48 PM UTCWASHINGTON — The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is demanding that the State Department declassify and publicly release an 87-page review of the Biden administration's chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.Tuesday to release an unclassified version of the complete document within 60 days.
The review"directly contradicts the White House’s recent written and oral public statements," wrote McCaul, who said that the document specifically contradicts comments made by National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.largely blamed the failures of the withdrawal on the Trump administration, the unclassified review offers a different picture.
The unclassified report said some officials"questioned how and whether the Department could sufficiently mitigate the loss of military support, and the Bureau of Diplomatic Security warned of the level of risk that the Department would be accepting," according to McCaul's letter.
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