The Republican Congressman threatened US embassy workers to assist him sneak into Afghanistan

Mullin’s plan was to fly off Tbilisi, Georgia, to Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he would rent a helicopter to take to Afghanistan to rescue five US citizens. To rent the helicopter, a lot of money had to be brought to Tajikistan – more than the country’s law allows. Mullin wanted the US embassy there to help break the law.

When the embassy refused to help Mullin break the law, he got a hissing fit, demanded the names of the staff he spoke to, and threatened U.S. Ambassador John Mark Pommersheim and other embassy staff.

To reiterate, a member of Congress was told no by the Pentagon. Instead of backing out, he tried to get US diplomats to help him break the laws of the country they were stationed in so that he could go to a country that the US was trying to get people out of for security reasons, and when she said no he threatened her.

“To say this is extremely dangerous is a massive understatement,” an unnamed State Department official told the Post.

Moulton and Meijer are military veterans – a mixed bag in assessing their actions. They would have at least some understanding of how to behave in military operations and remaining skills to keep themselves safe in that environment. But they also needed to know how resource intensive their visit would be, and they put their own importance and desire for attention above these considerations. Mullin, on the other hand, is a former high school and college wrestler who was briefly a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Now he apparently thinks he’s Rambo.

Mullin’s office doesn’t say where he is now, just that he’s safe. House leader Kevin McCarthy, who last week said members of Congress should not try to go to Afghanistan, walked away when reporters asked if he had been in touch with Mullin or knew where he was.