Jan. 6 fishing expedition / trip / boondoggle / joke / probe "Will 'Get to the Bottom' of Secret Service Texts"

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-24/jan-6-panel-will-get-
to-the-bottom-of-secret-service-texts

The bipartisan committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the
Capitol intends to “get to the bottom” of missing or destroyed US Secret
Service texts from the days surrounding the attack, Representative Liz
Cheney said on Sunday.

The committee is seeking text messages from 24 Secret Service employees
related to Jan. 5 and the day of the Capitol attack. Speaking on CNN’s
“State of the Union,” Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the panel, said
she was “deeply troubled” by the missing or deleted messages.

In addition to interviewing other members of former President Donald
Trump’s cabinet and campaign, she said the panel is “very focused as well
on the Secret Service and on interviewing additional members of the Secret
Service and collecting additional information from them.” She added: “We
will get to the bottom of it.”

The committee is seeking the texts as it looks into reports that Trump had
to be blocked by Secret Service agents from traveling with supporters to
the Capitol on Jan. 6 to try to stop Congress’s certification of Joe
Biden’s 2020 election victory. Agents protecting former Vice President
Mike Pence, who refused to stop the certification, feared for their lives
that day, according to testimony presented during Thursday’s hearing.

Former deputy White House Chief of Staff Tony Ornato, Trump’s former
Secret Service lead agent Robert Engel and another agent have hired
private lawyers, choosing not to rely on agency-provided counsel, Jan. 6
panel members have said.

“I think if they’re hiring criminal defense counsel, then I think they
probably have concerns about their potential criminal liability,”
Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, said Sunday on
CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

The Homeland Security Department’s watchdog has opened an investigation
into the loss of the Secret Service text messages and has instructed the
agency to stop its own internal investigation.

Thomas Subpoena
Cheney said the panel could potentially subpoena Virginia “Ginni” Thomas,
the conservative activist whose husband is Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas, about pushing false narratives around the 2020 election and the
riot at the Capitol.

“We certainly hope that she will agree to come in voluntarily, but the
committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena,” Cheney said.

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, who refused to comply with the panel’s
subpoenas, was convicted of criminal contempt of Congress on Friday. Each
of the two counts on which he was found guilty carry a maximum of one year
in prison.

Another committee member, Representative Adam Kinzinger, a Republican from
Illinois, told ABC’s “This Week” that ignoring subpoenas comes with
consequences.

“Come in. You can plead the Fifth if you want in front of our committee,
but you can’t ignore a Congressional subpoena or you’ll pay the price,” he
said. “That’s to any future witnesses too.”

Obama deleted texts and emails.

Hillary Clinton deleted texts and emails.


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