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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

House Republican warns of possible contempt charge for Blinken over Afghanistan document

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The House of Representatives’ new Republican majority has just waded into another brawl with the Joe Biden administration.

Foreign Affairs committee chairman Michael McCaul said on Sunday that he plans to go forward with potential contempt charges for secretary of state Antony Blinken over the latter’s refusal to turn over a document known as a “dissent cable”, relating to the 2021 withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.

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