Top Biden officials will answer for ‘deadly failures’ in Afghanistan as Oversight GOP widens probe

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is ramping up its investigation into the Biden administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021 and is demanding Biden’s top officials answer for “tactical and strategic failures.”

In letters sent Friday to senior White House leadership, the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, State Department, Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., demanded additional information into the Afghanistan withdrawal “catastrophe.”

“We are concerned that the Biden administration continues to delay long overdue transparency to the American people about the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal and evacuation,” the lawmakers wrote.

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