U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) pushed back against critics who say his secret trip to Afghanistan with another congressman was wrong and could have created more issues for security forces inside Afghanistan, telling a newspaper on Aug. 25 that he doesn’t care “one bit about anonymous quotes from Washington” when he’s “saving the lives of our allies.”
The Democrat told The Boston Globe from Doha, Qatar, that on multiple occasions he had requested permission to travel to Afghanistan, but had been turned down. The Marine Corps veteran said he was motivated to make the trip to help get families out of the country since they weren’t getting the assistance they needed via remote efforts.
