The US House Foreign Affairs Committee intends to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken accountable for contempt of Congress by failing to appear at hearings on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Ariana News writes about this.
Last week, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCall McCall called a committee meeting to hold the Secretary of State in contempt of Congress. In a statement, McCall said this was due to “his refusal to comply with the subpoena issued by the committee on Tuesday, September 3.” On May 23 of this year, Blinken was asked to appear before Congress on September 19 in connection with the committee’s recent report on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. However, he has no intention of doing so due to his “busy schedule.”
The full House of Representatives must now vote on whether to refer the case to the U.S. Justice Department to prosecute Blinken, a move that is unlikely to happen under a Biden administration but could be considered differently under a Trump administration, The Hill reports.
Meanwhile, a representative of the US State Department Matthew Miller He said he does not understand this attitude towards his boss on the part of the congressmen, since Blinken has already testified 14 times. In addition, Blinken is a very busy person and constantly “travels for the good of the country.”
