'Embarrassing' Afghan dissent cable showed warnings ignored by Biden administration: GOP

Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), a veteran of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division who helped rescue Americans stranded in Afghanistan, said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner that "after reading the dissent cable from the Afghanistan withdrawal, it’s clear why the Biden administration did not want to comply with Congress’s subpoena."

He revealed the dissent cable showed that "this withdrawal wasn’t botched, the decisions were made after being informed and they simply ignored the warnings and intelligence which cost Americans their lives" and that "this proves exactly what we suspected all along — this administration had a clear and defined warning of what was happening on the ground and what would take place if no action was taken.”

Mills said diplomats warned the Biden State Department “with a high degree of confidence that the Afghanistan National Defense Force could not hold the Taliban, and Americans and our allied partners would be left behind in harm’s way unless the U.S. corrected course in our withdrawal.” But “as every American witnessed, there was no course correction, there was no serious re-evaluation of contingency plans, and as a result, Americans were murdered and stranded," Mills continued. "The Biden administration failed every one of these Americans and their families."

The congressman added that “the American people, and especially the 13 Gold Star families, have a right to know what really transpired" and that the dissent cable "obliterates the lies this administration has told, and there must be accountability.”