State Department to share classified Afghanistan dissent cable with key lawmakers.

The State Department has offered two members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to view a July 2021 "dissent cable" that warned the Biden administration about the risks of withdrawing from Afghanistan. The department had refused to comply with a subpoena for the cable issued back in March, leading to a potential contempt charge against Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The cable will be viewed "in camera" and with some redactions. Republicans on the committee have been probing the circumstances surrounding the disastrous US pullout from Afghanistan in August of 2021.