Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday avoided for the second time in less than a year a House panel’s vote on whether he was in contempt of Congress over documents related to the 2021 Afghanistan troop withdrawal.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee has subpoenaed interview notes from the State Department staffers involved in producing Foggy Bottom’s After Action Review of the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan.
House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, announced that following a “good conversation” with Blinken on Wednesday night in which the secretary agreed to start producing the desired documents beginning on Thursday, he decided to postpone the markup of the contempt resolution scheduled for Thursday morning.
