Recently revealed documents show that the Biden administration ignored specific warnings as it pulled out of Afghanistan.

From The Daily Wire. Two key documents cautioning U.S. officials about a deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan before withdrawing in 2021 revealed President Joe Biden’s administration failed to heed specific warnings, a top House Republican said.

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House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Ranking Member Greg Meeks (D-NY) on Wednesday gained access to a 2021 dissent cable written by Kabul embassy officials from the U.S. State Department, according to Punch Bowl News. The lawmakers viewed the documents, which reportedly urged allies to evacuate immediately before the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. …

“Unfortunately, the administration didn’t heed all their warnings, and we got what we got,” McCaul [said].

After nearly two decades, Biden withdrew U.S. military presence from Afghanistan in August 2021. Thousands of people concerned with living under the Taliban’s brand of Islamist rule went to the airport in Kabul in an attempt to flee the country. The last troop plane departed after a weeks-long chaotic evacuation, which led to a terrorist attack that killed 13 U.S. service members and 170 civilians, and left up to $24 billion worth of weapons and equipment in the hands of the Taliban.

McCaul obtained the classified documents after months of battling Secretary of State Antony Blinken and State Department officials to hand over the report. He also threatened Blinken with a contempt of Congress charge from as soon as May 24 — the first time in U.S. history that lawmakers would take action against a sitting Secretary of State, according to the Republican. …

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(Excerpt from The Daily Wire. Photo Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)