Good Monday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing presented by BP.

And I'm Jake Sherman. Americans have long ignored America's longest war,

launched when some of its current participants weren't even alive. Afghanistan rarely makes

headlines these days, and what it does, it's often because one president or another is debating

whether and how many troops to pull out. The war is not popular, yet it goes on in large measure because it's out of sight and therefore

out of mind for most voters.

Will that change now?

The Washington Post has dropped a major package by Craig Whitlock called the Afghanistan Papers

a secret history of the war.

The first story is at war with the truth.

U.S. officials constantly said they were making progress. They were not, and they knew it. Here's the war. The first story is at war with the truth. U.S. officials constantly said they were making

progress. They were not, and they knew it. Here's the story. A confidential trove of documents

obtained by the Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about

the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be

false and hiding unmistakable

evidence the war had become unwinnable. This is modern-day Pentagon papers. Here we are. We have a

three-week sprint until the end of the year. It all starts with an epic Monday beginning at 9 a.m.

House judiciary has its hearing on the House Intel Committee's impeachment report.

So, for several hours, we'll see a reprise of everything Intel dredged up and a reprise of the

Republican opposition. Remember, presenting for Intel are Daniel Goldman and Stephen Castor,

the two councils. So lawmakers will have their crack at a congressional staffer, which can create a

unique dynamic. They can be much more firm, direct, and, to be frank, rude, with someone who

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