Biden is right to worry about the Afghanistan probe

We’ve heard a lot about the investigations and public hearings that House Republicans are readying as they prepare to assume majority powers in January. The GOP is ready to use its new authority to put the screws to the Biden administration with inquiries into everything, from its Covid response to the conduct of its Justice Department to the Hunter Biden scandal. According to the Washington Post, however, one investigation has the White House more “worried” than others: the GOP’s probe into America’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Biden administration should be worried.

The administration sources who spoke with Post reporters are anxious about a GOP-led exhumation of this ugly chapter in American history mostly because it cannot be dismissed as tawdry politics. Indeed, it’s the Biden White House that seems most invested in the politics of the issue. The investigation is likely to ramp up “just as President Biden launches his reelection campaign” in early 2023, the Post reported.