CNN: House Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenas US Taliban negotiator

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House Foreign Affairs Committee subpoenas US Taliban negotiator

The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday subpoenaed the envoy who had been leading negotiations with the Taliban to testify in an open hearing next week.

Rep. Eliot Engel said he signed the subpoena for Zalmay Khalilzad after the special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation and the State Department ignored "numerous requests" to testify about the peace negotiations. CNN has reached out to the State Department for comment on the subpoena.

"More than 2,000 American troops have died in Afghanistan, and I'm fed up with this Administration keeping Congress and the American people in the dark on the peace process and how we're going to bring this long war to a close," the New York Democrat said in a statement.
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The move to legally compel Khalilzad to testify in public comes after close to a year of talks with the Taliban collapsed earlier this week. State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus confirmed on Thursday that Khalilzad was back in Washington... - CNN

"in public" as in before live news cameras.



In case this was missed late last night.

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1. Too much shit going on all the time.