by Nicholas Ballasy at Just the News
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez said Tuesday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin refused to testify on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and he threatened to issue a subpoena if Austin doesn’t agree to testify in the near future.
Menendez made the comments during a hearing Tuesday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal of U.S. military troops in Afghanistan after 20 year in that country.
“I’m very disappointed that Secretary Austin declined our request to testify today,” said Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat. “A full accounting of the U.S. response to this crisis is not complete without the Pentagon — especially when it comes to understanding the complete collapse of the U.S. trained and funded Afghan military. His decision not to appear before the committee will affect my judgement on Department of Defense nominees.”
The Afghan military collapsed…
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