• US military withdrawal from Afghanistan allowed the Taliban to take over immediately.
• lawmakers have launched an investigation.
• The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Republican lawmakers have launched an investigation into the chaotic US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, which allowed the Taliban to take over immediately and resulted in scenes of thousands of desperate people storming Kabul airport, some clinging to departing US planes as they rolled down the runway.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced on Friday. that he had written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking for a variety of information ranging from intelligence assessments to interactions with the Taliban.

McCaul, a longstanding opposition member on the committee who became its chairman after the House turned to Republican power at the start of the year, said it was “absurd and disgraceful” that US President Joe Biden’s administration “continues to suppress facts relevant to the withdrawal”.

“In the event of continuous noncompliance, the committee will employ all available authorities to enforce these requests, including through a mandatory process,” he stated.

While Trump reached an agreement with the Taliban, his Republican Party has slammed Biden’s handling of the operation and announced hearings as part of a series of investigations into his government.

Scenes of frantic Afghans clinging to moving US military planes on the tarmac at Kabul airport accompanied a dramatic decrease in Biden’s approval ratings nine months after he was elected promising smooth, professional leadership following his predecessor Donald Trump’s pandemonium.

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday. According to US media, it has delivered more than 150 briefings to members of Congress since the August 2021 exit.

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