The House GOP launched an investigation into US President Joe Biden over the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.
On Friday, the House initiated an investigation into Biden’s botched withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan after it resulted in the death of 13 American troops.
According to the reports, Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican from Texas and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee led the investigation into Joe Biden’s action in August 2022.
On Thursday, McCaul sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, requesting for information regarding the White House’s actions under the Biden administration which lead to the withdrawal.
McCaul told Blinken in the letter that “it is absurd and disgraceful that the Biden administration has repeatedly denied our longstanding oversight requests and continues to withhold information related to the withdrawal.”
“In the event of continued noncompliance, the Committee will use the authorities available to it to enforce these requests as necessary, including through a compulsory process,” McCaul added.
“We owe this to the American people, especially our service members and veterans,” he continued.
In a separate report published by the Post Millennial, it was revealed that the lawmaker vowed to “pursue this investigation until all our questions are answered and all parties responsible are held accountable.”
“Biden announced his withdrawal plans in April 2021, stating troops would start leaving on May 1. The US military abandoned Bagram Air Base in July and left behind 7 billion dollars worth of military equipment and assets. The Taliban entered Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on August 15, causing Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to flee for Tajikistan. In 2021, Republicans on the Foreign Affairs Committee released a report condemning Biden for the withdrawal,” the report read.
On Friday, Jordan and Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., also wrote a letter to Garland.
“We are conducting oversight of the Justice Department’s actions with respect to former Vice President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents, including the apparently unauthorized possession of classified material at a Washington, D.C., private office and in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware, residence,” Jordan and Johnson said in the statement.
According to Jordan, he would also investigate the alleged concealment of information conducted by the DOJ.
He also added that the White House reportedly confessed to the first batch of documents at the Penn Biden Center which had been found prior to the midterm elections in 2022. However, the documents would not be disclosed publicly until this week.
“It is unclear when the Department first came to learn about the existence of these documents, and whether it actively concealed this information from the public on the eve of the 2022 elections,” Jordan wrote in the letter.
“It is also unclear what interactions, if any, the Department had with President Biden or his representatives about his mishandling of classified material. The Department’s actions here appear to depart from how it acted in similar circumstances,” he added.
