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House Republicans and Democrats to issue dueling documents casting blame for mistakes made in US withdrawal from Afghanistan | CNN Politics

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Documents are latest in a series of examinations of the deadly August 2021 US withdrawal from Afghanistan .

Republican report is highly critical of the Biden administration and pins the blame for the chaotic exit exclusively on its decisions.

Democratic report also aims to implicate Vice President Kamala Harris in its accusations by referring to the current government as “the Biden-Harris administration’s”.

The report said that “ Afghanistan once again became a haven for terrorists, including al Qaeda and ISIS-K ” following the US withdrawal.

Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad was negotiating a succession plan for the Afghan government that included the Taliban , and the committee claims he was “wedded to the idea”.

McCaul said the conduct of the withdrawal amounted to “moral negligence of the administration” McCaul also claimed that the release of the report at this time was not an effort to play politics.

The State Department said it was disappointed that the Republicans used the report to politicize Afghanistan policy.

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