EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, is firing back at the White House for circulating a memo that defends the Biden administration's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly a year ago, calling claims "demonstrably false" and an attempt to sweep the chaotic withdrawal under the rug.
A spokesperson for President Biden's National Security Council drafted a memo this week defending the administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan, writing that the president "refused to send another generation of Americans to fight a war that should have ended long ago," according to a copy of the document obtained by Fox News Digital.
The White House's memo comes after the House Foreign Affairs Committee publicized a report critical of the withdrawal, which killed 13 U.S. service members, accusing the administration of failing to evacuate U.S.-trained Afghan military personnel, leaving at least 800 Americans behind enemy lines, and creating a major national security risk.
"Most of the claims made in this memo are demonstrably false, and all of them are the same talking points the president has been repeating for a year in his efforts to sweep the disastrous Afghanistan evacuation under the rug," McCaul, who serves as the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told Fox News Digital Monday.
The White House memo called the Republicans' review a "partisan report" that is "riddled with inaccurate characterizations, cherry-picked information, and false claims" and placed...
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