Republicans, especially in the House of Representatives, are looking at the actions (or, at times, inaction) of the Biden administration and determining that they are worthy of impeachment.

For Joe Biden, it's about his lying and corruption. For Alejandro Mayorkas, it's about threatening national security through his refusal to enforce U.S. law at the border. Other faces have begun to appear in the House's crosshairs, however. The latest name to bubble up to the surface is Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee is seeking to get hold of any and all documents and information related to the Biden administration's outright disaster of a withdrawal from Afghanistan - or else.

In a letter Monday night, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) threatened to hold Sec. Blinken in contempt of Congress if the State Department continues withholding documents — specifically interview documents used to draft the administration's "after-action review" of Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal. 

That internal 90-day review, based on interviews following Biden's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, found notable shortcomings and significant failures within the State Department's role in the execution of America's departure from Afghanistan after two decades. Notes and transcripts from those interviews contain first-hand accounts of the disaster as it unfolded and worsened — even while President Biden and his administration painted a rosy but false picture of the deteriorating situation. Still, Blinken refuses to turn them over to McCaul and the Foreign Affairs Committee. 

Contempt of Congress is pretty significant, especially in a battle between Congress and the executive branch. But with Republicans outraged by the absolute lack of cooperation. Administrations will typically protect their internal communications and deliberative processes from outside eyes, but considering the disaster that the Afghanistan withdrawal was, it's no wonder the Biden administration wants to keep all that under wraps.

The problem is, that withdrawal really kickstarted the current instability in the Middle East, as it made clear to anti-American forces that we wouldn't be around to stop them from doing their worst. Iran was left emboldened, and they turned to other terror groups and began training them to further destabilize the region.

But holding Blinken in contempt of Congress is also likely to be downplayed by Democrats, touted as a baseless, election-year move with no real legal force behind it. The Biden administration has long maintained that its actions were the correct ones, even despite reports and leaks from within that show anything but unity on the subject.

Republicans, however, see Afghanistan as the issue that triggered Biden's downward spiral in popularity among American voters, and they would like to capitalize on it as well. 

However, that doesn't mean the Republicans are wrong to take up arms against Blinken. Americans were killed and left behind in Afghanistan by an administration that claimed to have had a plan but seemed to be just as clueless as the rest of us about how the withdrawal was supposed to go. Holding Blinken in contempt is justified, but it will likely not lead to any real change... unless the Republicans have a trump card to pull on Blinken.