^{Original article from Dailymail.com by Kelly Laco.}

House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans are calling new witnesses with ‘critical’ insider information on the Afghanistan withdrawal to sit for transcribed interviews as their investigation into the Biden administration’s handling of the deadly exit intensifies.

Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said that he is calling five former State Department officials to testify because they have ‘important information that is critical’ to unraveling ‘how and why’ the disastrous withdrawal occurred in August 2021.

The five individuals called include: Jonathan Mennuti, former acting chief of staff to Acting Under Secretary of State for Management Carol Perez; Mark Evans, former acting deputy assistant secretary for Afghanistan; James DeHart, former lead of the Afghanistan Task Force; Jayne Howell, from the Bureau of Consular Affairs; and former Ambassador Daniel Sm…