Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., has threatened to subpoena top Biden administration officials over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Menendez promised accountability in his opening statement Tuesday before Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the committee, Axios reported. The senator threatened to subpoena Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and other Biden officials who decline to voluntarily appear before the panel.
“Mr. Secretary, the execution of the U.S. withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed,” Menendez told Blinken.
Menendez, saying multiple administrations “lied” about the stability of the Afghan government, added that Austin’s refusal to testify “will affect my personal judgment on Department of Defense nominees.”
Menendez said “we know now that the Taliban had no intention of pursuing a political path and peace deal with the Afghan government.”
“The administration says that we should judge the Taliban by their actions, and I agree,” Menendez said, “and their actions since taking over Afghanistan have been pretty horrifying – beating women activists, murdering ethnic and religious minorities such as the Hazara, separating classrooms by gender, shutting down local media, refusal to break with al-Qaida, appointing the head of a foreign terrorist organization … to lead the ministry of interior, and the list goes on.”
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Lloyd Austin is an inept incompetent affirmative action appointee. He was only chosen because of the color of his skin. It was done by Biden and the girls of the squad to placate the Karens of the woke crowd. Now 13 American heroes lost their lives because of it. Blinken and Susan Rice can spin it all they want. It won’t matter. This is worse than what happened in Benghazi.