A top State Department official has admitted to providing false information to a Senate subcommittee during a July hearing on U.S. embassy security in Afghanistan.

Sen. Claire McCaskill raised concerns about the security contract at the Kabul embassy, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., pressed Patrick Kennedy, undersecretary for management, on a January report by the Project on Government Oversight that found security forces are overworked and stretched thin at the compound.

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