In the Media: Getting Answers on the Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal
Since the beginning of the 118th Congress, Chairman McCaul and the Committee on Foreign Affairs Republicans have been making headlines on the Biden administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in the news and on social media. Here’s some of what the committee’s been up to:
On TV:
- Fox News: Chairman McCaul on “America’s Newsroom” with Bill Hemmer (September 9, 2024)
- Fox Business: Chairman McCaul on “Mornings with Maria” (September 9, 2024)
- CNN: Chairman McCaul Joins “The Lead” with Jake Tapper (September 9, 2024)
- Newsmax: Chairman McCaul on “The Record” with Greta Van Susteren (September 9, 2024)
- MSNBC: Chairman McCaul Joins Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC (September 9, 2024)
- CBS News: Chairman McCaul on CBS’ “Face the Nation” (September 8, 2024)
- Newsmax: Chairman McCaul on “The Record” with Greta van Susteren on NEWSMAX (March 19, 2024)
- CNN: Chairman McCaul & SOTU 2024 Guest Christy Shamblin Discuss Afghanistan Withdrawal Investigation (March 6, 2024)
- News Nation: McCaul on News Nation Discussing Afghanistan Investigation, the China Challenge, and War in Ukraine (July 20, 2023)
- Fox News: Chairman McCaul on Fox News Discussing Biden’s Botched Withdrawal and Afghanistan Dissent Cable (June 8, 2023)
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In the News:
- Washington Examiner: Blinken fails to comply with House subpoena and faces contempt resolution (September 12, 2024)
- Fox News: Kirby: ‘No use in responding’ to a ‘handful of vets’ on Biden’s botched Afghan withdrawal (September 11, 2024)
- The Wall Street Journal: The Long Shadow of Biden’s Afghan Withdrawal Debacle (September 9, 2024)
- CBS News: GOP-led House committee accuses Biden administration of misleading the public about Afghanistan withdrawal (September 8, 2024)
- Fox News: House GOP releases scathing report on Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan (September 8, 2024)
- New York Post: Biden was hellbent on leaving Afghanistan – ignoring military advice, NATO objections and Afghan pleas: House report (September 8, 2024)
- Axios: House Foreign Affairs Committee releases sweeping Afghanistan report (September 8, 2024)
- Associated Press: House Republicans subpoena Secretary Blinken for testimony on US withdrawal from Afghanistan (September 4, 2024)
- New York Post: House committee subpoenas Antony Blinken over refusal to testify in Afghanistan withdrawal probe (September 4, 2024)
- The Washington Examiner: House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul subpoenas Blinken over Afghanistan withdrawal (September 3, 2024)
- Axios: House panel subpoenas Blinken over Afghanistan withdrawal (September 3, 2024)
- Afghanistan International: McCaul Calls for Biden & Harris to Account for Taliban’s Oppression of Afghan Women (August 30, 2024)
- New York Post: Callous Biden showed his true colors by tanning at the beach on the anniversary of his Afghanistan withdrawal horror (August 28, 2024)
- The Hill: Top House GOP lawmaker calls for Sullivan to testify on Afghanistan (August 28, 2024)
- Washington Free Beacon: In Closed-Door Testimony, Jen Psaki Says She Didn’t ‘Challenge or Question’ Biden-Harris Admin’s Inaccurate Information on Bungled Afghanistan Withdrawal (August 22, 2024)
- New York Post: Ex-WH press secretary Jen Psaki set to testify about Afghanistan pullout, dodging subpoena (July 2, 2024)
- The Hill: GOP-led House panel to question Psaki this month on failures of Afghanistan withdrawal (July 2, 2024)
- Axios: Scoop: GOP chair weighs Psaki subpoena in Afghanistan probe (May 22, 2024)
- Axios: Psaki’s new book falsely recounts Biden’s watch check in troop ceremony (May 13, 2024)
- Punchbowl News: Behind the scenes of the State Department’s Afghanistan response (April 24, 2024)
- Daily Mail: State Department chaos revealed weeks before the Afghanistan disaster (April 12, 2024)
- Axios: The Biden probe that House Republicans are most eager to talk about (April 11, 2024)
- Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE | State Department STILL didn’t have a full Afghanistan evacuation plan when the Taliban stormed Kabul… days before the suicide blast: Devastating new details reveal the chaos in the bungled operation (April 11, 2024)
- Daily Mail: EXCLUSIVE | Antony Blinken’s answer to Pulp Fiction ‘cleaner’ Winston Wolfe failed to answer questions 100 TIMES when quizzed about disastrous Afghanistan exit, damning transcripts reveal (April 11, 2024)
- CNN: Exclusive | State Department officials told House investigators they created Afghanistan withdrawal plans from scratch (April 4, 2024)
- RealClearPolitics: ‘I Cannot Call Evacuation a Success’: New Details of Afghanistan Chaos (April 1, 2024)
- AP News: Top former US generals say failures of Biden administration in planning drove chaotic fall of Kabul (March 20, 2024)
- Washington Post: Forget impeachment. Watch this Biden investigation. (March 19, 2024)
- New York Post: Ex-general recounts opposition to disastrous Afghanistan pullout, laments Biden ‘strategic failure’ in Hill testimony (March 19, 2024)
- Fox News: Milley and McKenzie critical of delays in decision making during Afghanistan withdrawal: ‘Far too late’ (march 19, 2024)
- CNN: Top generals who oversaw US withdrawal from Afghanistan slam State Department for delaying emergency evacuation (March 19, 2024)
- Washington Post: Republicans continue to hammer Biden for Afghan exit (March 19, 2024)
- ABC News: House Republicans ramp up investigation into Afghanistan withdrawal (March 28, 2023)
- ABC News: Veterans’ searing testimony drives GOP-led House panel hearing on Afghanistan exit (March 8, 2023)
- The Hill: GOP report knocks Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal, eyes post-midterm scrutiny (August 14, 2022)