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United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has actually accepted testify publicly at a House of Representatives committee hearing on the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.According to the committee, chair Michael McCaul, Blinken had dedicated to appear at a public hearing on December 11 to discuss the committee’& rsquo; s investigation of the withdrawal three years ago.The committee and the State Department have been wrangling over Blinken’& rsquo; s appearance for months.Panel Republicans voted in September to recommend Blinken be held in contempt of Congress for stopping working to comply with a subpoena.The State Department competed that the panel was provided with large amounts of information, with Blinken affirming before Congress on Afghanistan more than 14 times and the department offering almost 20,000 pages of records, multiple top-level briefings and transcribed interviews, Reuters reported.McCaul released a report on September 8 on the committee Republicans’ & rsquo; investigation of the disorderly Afghanistan withdrawal, blasting Democratic President Joe Biden’& rsquo; s administration for failures surrounding the evacuation.The concern had become intensely politicized before the presidential election on November 5.
In his successful quote for a 2nd term, Republican previous President Donald Trump drew criticism for shooting a video for his project at Arlington National Cemetery where he appeared at a ceremony honoring soldiers killed in the evacuation, Reuters reported.