Dear Chairman McCaul,
I wish to provide a formal explanation for my resignation from my position as a senior investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s investigation into the Biden-Harris Administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. My resignation is effective today. I am grateful for being asked to serve in this role for the past year.
I believe the Committee’s work has been important and the investigation has repeatedly uncovered evidence further solidifying the undeniable fact that the dangerous decision by President Biden — one strongly supported by Vice President Harris — to fully and rapidly pull out all U.S. troops from Afghanistan with no plan for how to deal with the inevitable fallout was a deadly disaster. The investigation has further reinforced that the Biden-Harris Administration’s cascade of bad decisions in 2021 led to the Afghan government’s collapse, the Taliban’s conquest of the country, the deaths of 13 U.S. service members at Abbey Gate, the abandonment of hundreds of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghan allies, and a rise in terrorism — and the investigation has reinforced the fact that the Biden-Harris Administration’s disaster has led to a more dangerous world.
Even as I applaud the Committee’s successes, many of which have come because of your continued leadership on this issue, I must also recognize and highlight the investigation’s faults, particularly the missed opportunities resulting from the Committee’s unwillingness or inability to pursue critical testimony and from its failure to go down key investigative avenues. I believe
