Missouri senator calls for select committee to probe US withdrawal

US Senator Josh Hawley has called for the establishment of a Senate Select Committee to investigate the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan in August last year.

According to an ABC-affiliated news outlet, Hawley said: “There needs to be real accountability here.”

Hawley introduced legislation to establish a 20-member committee to review intelligence, interview U.S. officials, and to hold public hearings.

“Yet the White House doesn’t want to answer any questions,” said Hawley. “They will not have hearings in public. Will not consent to it.”

Questions have continued to be raised around the chaotic troop withdrawal as the former Afghan government collapsed last August, especially as the United States left behind billions of dollars of American military hardware.