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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to investigate August 2021’s “chaotic withdrawal” from Afghanistan.

Hegseth also said he wants to “thoroughly examine previous investigations” into decisions made by the Biden administration before the suicide bombing at Kabul International Airport’s Abbey Gate that killed 13 service members and more than 170 civilians.

Hegseth said in <a href="https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/20/2003719398/-1/-1/1/DEPARTMENTAL-REVIEW-OF-THE-US-MILITARY-WITHDRAWAL-FROM-AFGHANISTAN-IN-2021.PDF">a May 20 memorandum</a> to Pentagon and combatant commanders that since assuming his post, he’s been “engaged in a review of this catastrophic event” and has “concluded that we need to conduct a comprehensive review to ensure that accountability for this event is met and that the complete picture is provided to the American people.”

Several reports have already been issued following investigations into the withdrawal.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee conducted a year-long investigation into decision-making during the six months before the bungled withdrawal, staging three full committee hearings on the matter between 2023–2024.

The House Oversight Committee followed with two hearings in 2024.

Panel chairs Reps. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and James Comer (R-Ky.) have accused the Biden administration and the Pentagon of not cooperating in Congressional efforts to determine how the catastrophe unfolded.

Hegseth said in <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4193103/secretary-hegseth-statement-directing-dod-review-of-us-military-withdrawal-from/">a May 20 press release</a> announcing the latest probe into the withdrawal: “We have an obligation to the American people and to the warfighters who fought in Afghanistan to get the truth—and we will.”

The Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing marked the end of the United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan.

Republicans lay sole responsibility on the Biden administration’s actions—specifically those of President Joe Biden, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken—in the months preceding that day.

On Sept. 9, 2024, the House GOP <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/republicans-democrats-on-house-foreign-affairs-panel-issue-dueling-afghanistan-withdrawal-reports-5720837">issued</a> a 345-page “Willful Blindness” <a href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/WILLFULL-BLINDNESS-An-Assessment-of-the-Biden-Harris%20Administrations-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-and-the-Chaos-that-Followed.pdf">report</a> that argued Biden, Sullivan, and Blinken discarded advice to maintain a stronger military presence in Afghanistan to keep the Taliban at bay, opting to stick to the September “go to zero” withdrawal timeline set in April 2021.

Democrats and Biden administration officials, including Blinken, during a marathon Dec. 11 <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/live-now-blinken-faces-house-foreign-affairs-committee-on-afghanistan-withdrawal-5774202">hearing</a> before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said that the genesis of the disaster was the Doha Agreement with the Taliban signed by President Donald Trump during his first term in February 2020 without consulting the Afghanistan government.

The Doha agreement outlined <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-ignored-advice-pushed-afghanistan-unconditional-withdrawal-former-ambassador-5588445">a 14-month withdrawal </a>of coalition forces from 14,000 to 8,600 U.S. troops by the end of 2020 and to 2,500 in January 2021, a reduction ordered by Trump in one of his last acts before leaving the White House at the end of what would be his first term.

That determination was buttressed by the State Department’s <a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/State-AAR-AFG.pdf">“After Action Report” (AAR)</a> published in June 2023, and the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) <a href="https://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/sigar-quarterly-report-2023-10-30/">report</a> released in October 2023.

Both reports concluded the Trump and Biden administrations share responsibility for the bungled withdrawal—one administration’s bad treaty leaving the next in an untenable position that devolved into a deadly disaster by its dogged adherence to timelines that ignored what was happening on the ground.

Pentagon Public Affairs Senior Adviser Sean Parnell, a former Army airborne ranger who spent more than 15 months in Afghanistan and “was wounded in action along with 85 percent of his platoon,” will spearhead the new probe into the investigations, Hegseth said.

“It is fitting that he will lead the effort to reexamine previous Abbey Gate investigations conducted by U.S. Central Command during the Biden administration,” he added.

Hegseth also named former Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller, “a combat-decorated Marine officer who spoke out about the Afghanistan withdrawal,” and author Jerry Dunleavy, “who helped lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s investigation into the Afghanistan withdrawal,” to the special review panel.

“Sean and his team will look at the facts, examine the sources, interview witnesses, analyze the decision-making, and post-mortem the chain of events that led to one of America’s darkest moments,” Hegseth said.

“Sean and his team will provide updates at appropriate times to keep the American people informed of our findings and any directed actions resulting from our review.”

<em>From <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/hegseth-orders-probe-into-2021-afghanistan-withdrawal-previous-investigations-5860773">The Epoch Times</a></em>

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