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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCREW files ethics complaint against@GOPleader Kevin McCarthy & Marjorie Taylor Greene
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CREW files ethics complaint against Kevin McCarthy & Marjorie Taylor Greene
September 3, 2021
The Office of Congressional Ethics should investigate whether House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene violated House rules by threatening to retaliate against companies that comply with legal requests for documents from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
The Select Committee recently issued document demands to 15 social media and telecommunications companies and requested that 35 companies preserve phone records and other information regarding the January 6 attack. In response, McCarthy issued a statement threatening that a Republican majority will not forget and will hold the companies fully accountable under the law if they comply with the requests. Greene stated in a television interview that if the companies go along with this, they will be shut down and thats a promise.
On January 6, we saw the gravest domestic attack on our democracy since the Civil War, CREW President Noah Bookbinder said. Blatant obstruction of the investigation could leave our nation even more vulnerable to a future attack.
House rules require members to uphold the laws of the United States and to conduct themselves at all times in a manner that reflects creditably on the House. The threats of McCarthy and Greene do neither. Threatening retaliation for complying with legally valid document demands and preservation requests appears to violate 18 U.S.C. § 1505, which prohibits obstructing congressional investigations, and does not reflect creditably on the House.
McCarthy and Greene are transparently trying to thwart the Select Committee by illegally threatening companies with reprisals if they comply with the committees proper and lawful requestsquite possibly to protect themselves, Bookbinder said. This dangerous and unprecedented conduct must not be allowed to stand. OCE should investigate immediately.
Yesterday, it was reported that McCarthy is among the lawmakers whose phone records the Select Committee is interested in, leading to speculation that this is an attempt to prevent damning information about himself from coming out. It had previously been reported that the requests covered Greenes phone records.
Click here to read the complaint.
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CREW files ethics complaint against@GOPleader Kevin McCarthy & Marjorie Taylor Greene (Original Post)
riversedge
Sep 2021
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. Thanks for this op, and thank you, CREW, for all you do.
malaise
(268,969 posts)2. Bravo CREW
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2naSalit
(86,580 posts)3. K&R
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)4. Good
bucolic_frolic
(43,146 posts)5. Confused between
what is threat, and what is blackmail. So glad I'm not a lawyer.
gab13by13
(21,323 posts)6. I am just an internet lawyer but,
this seems to me to be more than just an ethics violation, how about obstruction of justice?
lookyhereyou
(140 posts)7. looks like
smells like
robbob
(3,528 posts)9. Obstruction of Justice was TFG's middle name.
Was he even once held to account?
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)10. +1, in plane sight too ... that's kicking sand in DOJ faces
Cozmo
(1,402 posts)8. You go, CREW. get 'em
niyad
(113,284 posts)11. Qkevin is NOT a senator.
intheflow
(28,463 posts)12. So repugs think government has no right oversee private business.
But if a private company cooperates with a subpoena, it's fine for the government to threaten them.
JudyM
(29,236 posts)13. CREW has been doing great work, glad they did this.
I have no connection to them but were fortunate they exist to support responsible governance.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/
crickets
(25,969 posts)14. Thank you, CREW! nt