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Representative Michael McCaul sent a letter to Secretary of
State Antony Blinken requesting the information before Blinken's
testimony to the committee on Thursday.
The letter, dated March 20, noted that McCaul had sent a
comprehensive document request on the withdrawal on Jan. 12, and
a follow-up letter on March 3, among other requests.
The State Department generally does not comment on its
correspondence with Congress, but is "committed to working with
Congress to appropriately accommodate their legitimate need for
information to help them conduct oversight for legislative
purposes," a spokesperson said.
Blinken is due to testify to congressional committees in both
the Senate and House this week.
Republicans have launched a series of investigations of
Democratic President Joe Biden's administration since they took
control of the House in January.
McCaul had said even before becoming committee chairman that he
wants to look into the messy withdrawal from Afghanistan and
events in the country since, noting that there has never been a
full accounting of the chaotic operation, in which 13 U.S.
service members were killed at Kabul's airport.
Hundreds of U.S. citizens and many thousands of Afghans who had
worked with American forces were left behind.
(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle, additional reporting by Simon
Lewis; editing by Jonathan Oatis and Sandra Maler)
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