Breaking on cnn: Mark Meadows to halt cooperation with January 6 committee

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Fuck all these people who give the finger to the DOJ.

(CNN)Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows will no longer cooperate with the House select committee investigating January 6 insurrection, according to a letter from his attorney to the panel, which was obtained by CNN on Tuesday.

"We agreed to provide thousands of pages of responsive documents and Mr. Meadows was willing to appear voluntarily, not under compulsion of the Select Committee's subpoena to him, for a deposition to answer questions about non-privileged matters. Now actions by the Select Committee have made such an appearance untenable," the letter from George J. Terwilliger II stated.

"In short, we now have every indication from the information supplied to us last Friday - upon which Mr. Meadows could expect to be questioned -= that the Select Committee has no intention of respecting boundaries concerning Executive Privilege," Terwilliger added.

CNN first reported last week that Meadows had begun cooperating with the committee, handing over thousands of documents and agreeing to appear for an interview this
week.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/mark-meadows-not-cooperating-january-6/index.html

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Traitor expects a change in 2022.

Gonna be sore surprised.

[bearsfootball516]

2. Shocker

[MLAA]

3. Sounds like Mark was the White House dude working with Jeffrey Clark on the letter

to overturn the election.

Lock them both up.

[leftieNanner]

23. Ooh! You may be right

The info was just released about the Clark letter having White House "finger prints" on it.

[Captain Zero]

24. Yes saw it on reddit

And it was sourced through Yahoo Sports.

Must be the double top secret way to leak stuff so important. But it's not like any news org or the DOJ is on it, so why not?

[leftieNanner]

30. I saw it on Rachel.

So NBC knows.

[Celerity]

4. the traitors are convinced that post-midterms they have zero to fear from the House or the Senate

[Elessar Zappa]

10. There will still be the DOJ.

I know a lot of people here have given up on Garland’s DOJ but I think we’ll see some action coming out of his office sometime in the coming months. If no one has been indicted by mid-2023 then I’ll concede that it’s probably not going to happen.

[Dave says]

5. Stall, stall, stall!! November 2022 is just around the corner

[Celerity]

12. It doesn't even take till 11 months from now. As soon as the primaries

start in Spring and Summer 2022, it gets far more dicey.

[kentuck]

6. I think the Committee may be waiting to see what direction the Courts are going to take?

Before they get more aggressive with their subpoena demands?

They expected a decision from the Court of Appeals yesterday, in my opinion. But it never came.

[jpak]

7. Throw his sorry ass in jail

Yup

[PRETZEL]

8. No big surprise here,

his options are pretty few.

He can either plead the fifth which would look really bad or look for immunity from the committee.

I'm guessing the second.

[BlueJac]

9. Subpoena him.

He is also trying to run out the clock. The committee needs to get tough and play hardball with these traitors. Time is wasting away, at this speed they won't get any where! NOT ONE OF THESE CRIMINALS CAN BE TRUSTED! PERIOD!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. And everyday, every second farther away from the actual crime

coincides with the amount of support you have from the general public. It's just a pure fact of natural behavior, especially in politics. Just like FG and articles of impeachment written by Steve Cohen D-TN. It was 11/15/17 about time FG approval was at its lowest. Thought I'd mention that one last time because I'm not going to mention it again in 2022 going forward LOL

[dchill]

11. Meadows' contempt seems to be inherent.

I wonder how anyone can charge him.

[Martin Eden]

13. "Executive Privilege?

When did Joe Biden grant executive privilege for this?

Because, of course, Meadows and his lawyer must know TFG has no authority or privilege in this matter.

[Hugin]

14. He finally answered the incessantly ringing phone, eh?

I was wondering why all of the buzzing out of Mar-a-frago had amped up recently.

TFG probably offered Meadows a pardon once he's re-installed in 2022 by finally prevailing in his claims 2020 waz stolenz!

[Nevilledog]

15. Read: Mark Meadows' letter to January 6 committee

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/meadows-jan-6-letter-120721/index.html

[Ohio Joe]

17. OK... So a few things based on that letter... What was it that changed?

1 - This is the first time I've seen anyone on the right describe 1/6 as an "Attack on the United States Capitol". That seems to be an admission they have previously tried to stay away from. What changed?

2 - The entire claim about thinking they would testify voluntarily is bullshit. The subpoena had been issued and the select committee has already voted to send criminal recommendation to DOJ, all it needs is a floor vote (and that will pass). That, combined with Bannon being charged was what changed his mind before. What changed?

3 - If this is a delay tactic, it is a really bad one. They gained what? A week? If it was a delay tactic, they could have easily gotten much more... No, something changed.

4 - They are also freely admitting that taking the 5th "is tantamount to an admission of guilt"... What happened to their claim that it would be no such thing? Again, something changed.

5 - The whole bullshit paragraph near the end about "legislative purpose" is... Well bullshit and they know it. Garland is careful and meticulous, he certainly went through the legal standards when Bannon made the same claims. They knew this when they agreed to comply... See a pattern here... Something changed.

The letter covers nothing new, nothing not known before he agreed to comply. Meadows and/or his lawyers got wind of something new they do not mention in the letter and not stated publicly by the select committee yet. I suspect it will be very interesting when we find out exactly what it was that changed.

[localroger]

19. He has realized he is in trouble

He is taking the fifth, not pretending the subpoena has no power. Over at the orange place it was suggested that the metadata in some of the documents show that the letters which were sent to state attorneys general have Trump admin fingerprints all over them, which could contradict any testimony that they didn't. Meadows' 180 is apparently about coincident with that revelation.

[crickets]

22. Yep. Some were going to bluff through it until the orange fingerprints showed up on the evidence.

Now it's way too real, and the "I don't remember" lies won't stand up as easily. Tch. Too bad.

[sarcasmo]

18. It took 3 weeks for Committee movement on Bannon. Slow down is the GOP game plan.

[nevergiveup]

20. He was never going to fully cooperate or testify and

deep down inside we all knew it. It is all a stalling technique as old as Donald Trump himself.

[KS Toronado]

21. Meadows is just begging to go to jail for a long long time.

He'll have plenty of company he knows well, and they'll sit around asking each other just how in the hell
did we allow _rump to do this to us?

[KPN]

26. Of course he is. Anyone who didn't see this coming?

It's always about running out the clock with these crooks.

[SheltieLover]

27. Lock him up!

[Marcuse]

28. They call it due process, and some are overdue.

[Scrivener7]

29. .

[malaise]

31. Mow the Meadow

Lock him up