Blinken Blasted by Republicans over Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Blinken promised to cooperate in providing information but said that dissent cables are shared in their entirety only with senior State Department officials. DPA

The Republican Party has raised the issue of the “chaotic” withdrawal from Afghanistan, slamming Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday during a hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Representative Mike McCaul, the new Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, raised the August 26, 2021 attack outside Kabul airport where US-led forces were rushing to evacuate US citizens and Afghan allies.