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Rep. Comer to Newsmax: House GOP Launching Full-Scale Probe on Afghanistan

By    |   Wednesday, 08 September 2021 01:58 PM EDT

Congressional Republicans are launching a full-scale inquiry into every angle possible in connection with the Biden administration's actions in Afghanistan, as there are still far too many questions that aren't being answered about what happened, Rep. James Comer told Newsmax .

"We're trying to find out answers that Joe Biden should have already told us by now, so we're questioning every potential person that would have any knowledge, whether they be in the intelligence community, whether they be active troops, we're trying to talk to people who have just been evacuated, who were behind a few days," the Kentucky Republican said Wednesday on "National Report."

Since they don't hold the House majority, the Republicans won't have subpoena power, Comer said, and "unfortunately, the Biden administration is not cooperating with us. ... The mainstream media continues to give Joe Biden a free pass on his botched Afghanistan withdrawal."

Just the fact that nobody is being held responsible after the deadly attack at the Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport points to the need for an investigation, he said. 

"Why doesn't Joe Biden hold someone accountable?" he said, noting that if the military, State Department, or other agencies made errors that led to the killings, then they should answer for it.

But Biden, Comer said, continues to "deflect blame" to former President Donald Trump, and Democrats are more concerned with pushing through the $3.5 trillion spending bill than handling the situation in Afghanistan and getting U.S. citizens out from behind enemy lines. 

"There's a huge disconnect between the Democrats who are the majority party and what mainstream Americans want from Congress, so we're going to keep fighting," Comer said. "We're going to be in Washington in a couple of weeks and hopefully, [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi's grip on the Democrat conference will start to waver because of Joe Biden's plummeting poll numbers."

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Sandy Fitzgerald

Sandy Fitzgerald has more than three decades in journalism and serves as a general assignment writer for Newsmax covering news, media, and politics. 

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