The Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives summons Antony Blinken in relation to Afghanistan.
Republican members of the US House of Representatives intend to summon Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State of the United States, regarding confidential correspondences related to the chaotic withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan.
Mike McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Associated Press that he had previously spoken to Mr. Blinken on Monday, and Mr. Blinken informed him that the State Department will not hand over the so-called dissident Telegram that American diplomats at the US Embassy in Kabul had written just before August 2021.
Mr. McCaul said in a statement, ‘We have tried several times in good faith to reach a compromise to see this sensitive information. Unfortunately, Mr. Blinken has refrained from presenting the dissident Telegram and his response to it, which forces me to issue the first summons as the committee’s chairman.’
In the diplomatic correspondence sent in July 2021 through a special channel expressing dissent, Mr. Blinken had been warned about the potential fall of Kabul.