Republican Rep. McCaul threatens Blinken with contempt over Afghanistan cables.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee has threatened to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over an unredacted copy of a July 2021 "dissent cable" in which 23 diplomats reportedly warned of the Taliban's rapid advancement ahead of the disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The State Department prepared and delivered a "roughly" one-page summation of the cable, along with a summary of the agency's official response "that was just under one page in length," which the committee deemed insufficient. Blinken has until May 11 to provide the information or face contempt of Congress proceedings.