US lawmakers to investigate Biden administration over failure of policies in Afghanistan

Members of the U.S. Congress, including many of President Joe Biden`s fellow Democrats, pledged to investigate the failure policies and intelligence in Afghanistan.

Washington: Members of the U.S. Congress, including many of President Joe Biden`s fellow Democrats, said on Tuesday (August 17) they were increasingly frustrated with events in Afghanistan, vowing to investigate what went wrong. "The events of recent days have been the culmination of a series of mistakes made by Republican and Democratic administrations over the past 20 years," Senator Bob Menendez, Democratic chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement. "We are now witnessing the horrifying result of many years of policy and intelligence failures," Menendez said. Menendez said his committee would hold a hearing on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, including negotiations between former Republican President Donald Trump`s administration and the Taliban and the Biden`s administration`s execution of the withdrawal.