WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 18th at 10:00 AM ET, House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) will hold a hearing to hear firsthand perspectives from national security experts about the Biden administration’s chaotic, disastrous, and reckless withdrawal from Afghanistan a year and a half ago, which has fostered the resurgence of terrorist activity once again in the country under Taliban rule.

DETAILS:

WHAT: A Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Homeland Security Cost of the Biden Administration’s Catastrophic Withdrawal from Afghanistan.”

DATE: Tuesday, April 18, 2023

TIME: 10:00 AM ET

LOCATION: 310 Cannon House Office Building

WITNESSES:

The Honorable Nathan A. Sales
Former Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism

Simone Ledeen
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East

Christopher J. Douglas
Colonel (Ret.), United States Marine Corps

Jonathan Schroden, PhD
Director, Countering Threats and Challenges Program and Special Operations Program Center for Naval Analyses

Witness testimony can be found here. The hearing will be open to the public and press.

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