The House Foreign Affairs Committee has finally released its much anticipated “Willful Blindness: An Assessment of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Chaos that Followed” report.
The report now has the White House spinning.
It has also resulted in Secretary of State Blinken getting called out by Rep. McCaul (R-TX), the chairman of the committee, who says he now intends to hold Blinken in contempt.
You Are in Contempt!
The report crushed the administration and its disastrous withdrawal.
It stated, “Our investigation reveals the Biden-Harris administration had the information and opportunity to take necessary steps to plan for the inevitable collapse of the Afghan government, so we could safely evacuate U.S. personnel, American citizens, green card holders, and our brave Afghan allies.
“At each step of the way, however, the administration picked optics over security.
“As a result of the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to plan for all contingencies, the U.S. government conducted an emergency evacuation without the necessary personnel, supplies, and equipment.
“The administration’s dereliction of duty placed U.S. servicemembers and U.S. State Department personnel in mortal danger, where the Taliban – our sworn enemy – became the first line of defense.
“As a direct result of the failure to plan for all contingencies, 13 U.S. servicemembers and 170 Afghans were murdered in a terrorist attack at Abbey Gate on August 26, 2021, and 45 U.S. servicemembers and countless Afghans were injured. This was preventable.”
McCaul then unloaded on Blinken, stating, “This was a catastrophic failure of epic proportions. This is a disgrace.
“I will hold him in contempt if that’s what it takes to bring him before the American people.”
“Secretary Blinken refuses to take one day out of this month to come before the [Gold Star] families.”
The State Department responded, “The majority isn’t truly interested in legislating on Afghanistan policy. If they were, they would have sought to speak to the secretary long ago.
“They would have sought to speak to him to get his input as they make this report.
“Instead they waited until the report was completely finished to come back to us.”
Let’s face facts here… this administration has been anything but forthcoming with the information when asked by Republicans.
I would love to see McCaul follow through on this, but then we will be relying on the Garland DOJ to actually follow through with the charges, which we all know is highly improbable.
This is why it is so important for the GOP to win this upcoming election and remove the Democrats from power.
If not, they are going to wind up getting away with everything.
