McCaul seeks transcribed interviews from State officers for information on lethal Afghanistan withdrawal

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul requested transcribed interviews of key State Department officers for the committee’s investigation into the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Mr. McCaul, Texas Republican, requested for the next present and former officers Wednesday to contact the committee to rearrange their transcribed interviews by Sept. 7:

• Ross L. Wilson, former performing U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan;
• Brian McKeon, former deputy secretary of State for Management and Resources;
• Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. particular consultant for Afghanistan Reconciliation;
• Carol Perez, former performing beneath secretary of State for Management;
• Ambassador John Bass, beneath secretary of State for Management, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan;
• Derek Chollet, counselor to the secretary;
• Suzy George, chief of workers to the secretary;
• Salman Ahmed, director, Policy Planning Staff; and
• Dean Thompson, U.S. ambassador to Nepal, former performing assistant decretary for South and Central Asia

“Through our ongoing investigation, we have determined these individuals have important information that is critical to uncovering how and why the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan resulted in a disgraceful surrender to the Taliban, the death of 13 U.S. servicemembers and injuring 45 more — all which could have been prevented,” Mr. McCaul mentioned in an announcement. 

The Washington Times reached out to the State Department for remark however didn’t instantly hear again. 

The request comes at some point after the Texas Republican and different GOP committee members hosted a roundtable dialogue with Gold Star members of the family who misplaced family members two years in the past when an Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up at Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate in the course of the chaotic U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan.

Mr. McCaul advised reporters following the roundtable that the administration has been blocking the committee’s requests for data and entry to people for a while

The session was a part of a push by the House Republican majority to analyze the endgame of the 20-year American army mission in Afghanistan, and the way President Biden and his high safety aides managed the ultimate days because the U.S.-backed authorities in Kabul melted away within the face of advancing Taliban fighters.