McCaul Threatens Blinken With Contempt Over Afghan Dissent Cable Subpoena

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) has threatened to place Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress as a result of the probe into the United States’ departure from Afghanistan.
The House Foreign Affairs chairman sent a May 5 letter to Blinken as part of the latest development in the panel’s probe.
The committee’s investigation began earlier this year, eventually leading to McCaul issuing a subpoena to Blinken for a dissent cable sent by U.S. diplomats in Kabul questioning the Biden administration’s intentions to remove troops in 2021.
Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas)  during a news conference with House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)  on October 20, 2021 in Washington. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
“That subpoena, which compels you to produce in unredacted form ‘the Dissent Channel cable sent on or about July 13, 2021, reportedly signed by 23 State Department officials and the official response to it,’ must be complied with immediately,” McCaul’s letter stated….}