Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin threatened embassy staff as he tried to enter Afghanistan, U.S. officials say
Tyler Pager and John Hudson | The Washington Post | Aug 31, 2021 Updated 1 hr agoWASHINGTON — The call to the U.S. ambassador to Tajikistan came in Monday. On the line, two U.S. officials said, was Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) with an unusual and urgent request: He needed assistance in transporting a huge amount of cash into the country, saying he was going to neighboring Afghanistan to rescue five American citizens, a woman and her four children, stuck in the country. They planned to hire a helicopter for the effort.
Mullin told the embassy that he planned to fly from Tblisi, Georgia, into Tajikistan’s capital, Dushanbe, in the next few hours and needed the top diplomat’s help, according to the two U.S. officials familiar with the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private conversations about a sensitive matter.
The answer was no. Embassy officials told Mullin they could not assist him in skirting Tajikistan’s laws on cash limits on his way to visiting one of the most dangerous places on earth. . .
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So basically, not only did the State Department not offer him any assistance, they have now ratted him out to the Taliban, tipping them off that a US Congressman is doing covert ops inside Afghanistan.
