Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee accused the Biden administration of misleading the public about the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in a report reviewed by CBS News that detailed the panel's yearslong investigation into the 2021 pullout. Expected.

     Republicans have routinely criticized President Biden over the deadly evacuation, in which 13 U.S. service members died in a suicide bombing in Kabul, and they are now also criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.  "This was one of the deadliest days in Afghanistan. It could have been prevented if the State Department did its job by law and executed the plan of evacuation," the committee chairman, Michael McCaul said Sunday on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan." "They left these 13 service men and women hanging out to dry… as a result of the, I'd say moral negligence on the part of the administration allowing this to happen."

     The lengthy report, which will be release but was shared exclusively with CBS News, is highly critical of Mr. Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, accusing the president and his administration of ignoring repeated warnings from military officials, national security advisers and U.S. allies about the risks associated with drawing American forces down to zero because he "prioritized politics and his personal legacy over America's national security interests." 

     "President Biden appears to have believed his historic position on Afghanistan would ensure his legacy," the report says, adding that Harris "appears to have been working in lockstep" with the president to withdraw all U.S. troops.  Mr. Biden has rarely commented on the Afghanistan withdrawal, but he said in September 2021 that he "was not going to extend this 'forever war,' and I was not extending a 'forever exit.'"