Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee slammed President Biden on Friday for recently rejecting accounts that service members gave of the United States’ chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan.
In a letter to Biden, committee ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and 18 of his colleagues called it “appalling” that Biden and White House press secretary Jen Psaki would dismiss the accounts, that were detailed in an Army investigation of an ISIS bombing outside of Abbey Gate at Kabul’s international airport that killed 13 U.S. service members.
Last week, when asked by NBC’s Lester Holt asked about the report, Biden said the report didn’t match his impression of the withdrawal. Asked if he was rejecting the accounts or conclusions of the report, Biden said, “Yes, I am.”
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