The memo, sent on July 13, 2021, to Blinken and Director of Policy Planning Salman Ahmed, was classified and warned that the Afghan government was at risk of collapse and that the Taliban's advance was imminent.
The memo also requested that the State Department stop using sanitized language to describe the horrific atrocities being committed by the Taliban. Prior to receiving the memo, President Joe Biden claimed that a Taliban takeover and governmental collapse were "highly unlikely."
The Foreign Affairs Committee, which is investigating the botched withdrawal, subpoenaed the State Department on March 28, 2022, seeking a copy of the memo by April 4. The State Department missed this and a second deadline, violating the congressional subpoena.
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Blinken and the Biden State Department ultimately determined that the democratically elected representatives of the American people only deserved to see summaries of the memo. Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) stressed in a May 5 letter to Blinken that the subpoena "compels you to produce in unredacted form 'the Dissent Channel cable" and "must be complied with immediately."
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Blinken and his department were given a final deadline of May 11, 2023, at 6:00 p.m. to produce the memo. However, the State Department failed to comply with the subpoena once again. McCaul confirmed that the State Department "has once again failed to comply with the subpoena."
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If Blinken is held in contempt by committee vote, then general House vote, it will be left up to the Department of Justice whether to charge Blinken. Contempt of Congress is a misdemeanor offense punishable by up to one year in prison.
In obfuscating the actual contents of the prophetic memo, Blinken may be attempting to help his boss once again. After all, if the nature of the warnings that went unheeded was indeed substantial and prophetic, then the Biden administration may have greater difficulty displacing blame and culpability for what ultimately occurred.
Thirteen U.S. service members died during a terror attack near the Hamid Karzai International Airport along with 170 others during the chaotic withdrawal. Thousands of Americans were left behind, some for months.
According to a Pentagon report, equipment worth approximately $7.12 billion was left behind after the withdrawal, including aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, weapons, armored vehicles, communications equipment, and other materials.
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The New York Post indicated that these weapons gifted to the Taliban by the Biden administration were in addition to the billions of dollars in equipment the Taliban would ultimately appropriate from the collapsed Afghan security forces.
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