Under an obscure committee rule to make the classified memo public, which has never been invoked in the panel's 40-plus-year history, the President would have five days following a vote to decide whether to allow the public release to move forward or object to it.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman, claimed responsibility for the attack , which sent thick, dark smoke into the sky from the site of the explosion near the government's former Interior Ministry building. At least 40 people are dead and 140 injured after a suicide bomb attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul . Afghan security forces have struggled to combat the Taliban since the US and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation formally concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014.
