The House Foreign Affairs Committee will be able to view a dissent cable from the time of the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a victory for the committee’s chairman, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas).
The committee announced the development on June 5.
McCaul, along with Ranking Member Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), viewed the cable on May 23 at the State Department. Whether committee members will have to go to the department to see it or whether they can view it in the House’s sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) is to be determined, as is when they will view the document, the committee’s deputy communications director, McLaurine Pinover, told The Epoch Times….