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The White House has drafted a memo defending the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The report allegedly claims that the Trump administration’s 2020 agreement with the Taliban “empowered the Taliban” and “weakened our partners in the Afghan government.” Rep. Michael McCaul, the Republican ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disagreed. “The intelligence community got it right,” said McCaul. “The problem was the White House and … State Department putting their head in the sand, not wanting to believe what they were saying and therefore not adequately planning.”