11 House Republicans Threaten Companies With Legal Action if They Hand Records Over to 1/6 Committee

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Mediaite

11 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to 13 companies threatening to “pursue all legal remedies” if they hand over records to the January 6 select committee.

On Monday, CNN reported which members of Congress the committee is seeking phone records from:

The list is said to be evolving and could be added to as the investigation steps up. As of now it includes Republican Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Paul Gosar also of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, Matt Gaetz of Florida, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Jody Hice of Georgia and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.

Boebert, Greene, Biggs, Gosar, Brooks, Cawthorn, Gaetz, Gohmert, Hice, Perry, and Jim Banks co-signed the letter to the following companies (per Fox Business): “Amazon, AOL, Apple, AT&T, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Snap, T-Mobile, Twitter, U.S. Cellular, Verizon and Yahoo.”

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Please proceed assholes. This'll get thrown out of court.

[Mr.Bill]

1. Obstruction of Justice.

And these idiots put it in writing.

[YDogg]

4. Exactly.

n/t

[DemocraticPatriot]

27. Take down their fucking names,

and prosecute them directly...

[SheltieLover]

34. Yup

[Pobeka]

2. Oooh, somebody definitely has something they'd like not see the light of day!

[Efilroft Sul]

3. I love it when the guilty make themselves known before the investigation begins.

[NJCher]

54. makes the job so easy

[C_U_L8R]

5. Marissa Mayer must be laughing her ass off

Considering she sold Yahoo to Verizon and left the company in 2017.

Verizon in turn sold off the Yahoo assets to chop-shop Apollo Global Management.

Who knows if there's any Yahoo scraps left at that mail address.

Despite the facts, these republican numbnuts think they're
being all badass issuing huffy-puffy threats.

We're reached peak stupid, folks.

[leftieNanner]

9. Fortunately for those numbnuts

None of these major corporations have any lawyers or any resources to pay lawyers.

[alfredo]

11. And they will come hat in hand for money for reelection.

[UpInArms]

6. The nearer the fire

The hotter the flame

[msongs]

7. they do this stuff because nobody will hold them accountable nt

[Evolve Dammit]

12. not yet. That's for sure

[paleotn]

19. The majority of yokels who actually bother to vote in their districts...

..agree with their fascist tendencies.

[monkeyman1]

8. trump's crapper flush tax is going to hit the roof now !

better notify the crapper pumping company's of sudden influx of shit coming ! god I love it when guilty people think they have the upper hand ! ol' Qkevin is probably trying to figure out which door to run out of ! front or back !

[alfredo]

10. Thuggery is not how you rally people behind you. Keep it up maggots, keep it up.

[aggiesal]

13. Add Kevin McCarthy and we now have our Dirty Dozen. n/t

[paleotn]

14. Not with federal funds they're not....

and the telecom giants have vastly deeper pockets. Sorry Fascist Caucus, that's not worth the paper it's printed on.

[stillcool]

17. yeah really. They think they own the world

[paleotn]

22. Common among House critters....

They tend to grossly inflate their actual importance. Individually and in small groups, House critters don't really amount to much. 218 House critters means something. 11 are meaningless.

[mackdaddy]

15. They were OK when Trump DOJ subpoenaed Democratic Congress members phone records...

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/trump-doj-apple-subpoena-leaks/

Former President Donald Trump’s Justice Department reportedly secretly seized the phone records of Democratic members of Congress, their aides, and family members in an effort to hunt for leaks from stories about Trump’s associates’ ties to Russia.

The explosive story, first reported by the New York Times, details an extraordinary effort by the Trump administration to use the investigative power of the Justice Department to carry out the then-president’s bidding as it sought the sources of politically damaging stories.

The two members of Congress are Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), both of whom were members of the House Intelligence Committee. At least a dozen people’s records were subpoenaed. No charges seem to have resulted.

Investigators reportedly debated closing the case based on lack of evidence and other factors, but following the ouster of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his successor, William Barr, revived it, the Times reports.

[stillcool]

18. good find!

[Bristlecone]

21. Indeed. And their families' records.

[yonder]

26. +1. Thanks for the reminder.

I can't keep track.

[intheflow]

16. Yeah, this doesn't look guilty at all.

[WHITT]

20. Nope

11 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to 13 companies threatening to “pursue all legal remedies” if they hand over records to the January 6 select committee.

There are no legal remedies.

[Bev54]

23. Are they using Devin Nunes's lawyer?

[sinkingfeeling]

24. Headline should be "We, the undersigned, declare ourselves above the law."

[Fiendish Thingy]

25. I would think this would halt contributions from these companies to these members. Nt

[patphil]

28. Now we know who the guilty parties are.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Preventing the government from investigating the government??

Yeah, that'll play. In a dictatorship.

[PurgedVoter]

30. Sure sounds like a confession of guilt to me

Do they ever look at the company they are keeping and realize how obvious their treason is?

[NJCher]

56. you know, that's an interesting point

I don't think they do. I think they are so removed from reality that they really do not understand how this comes off. Add what's called groupthink, and they reinforce each other, thus making it even more remote as to what kind of image they project.

I'll bet they have no clue that people like us sit around watching their every move, putting their bullshit into focus.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

31. Seditionist scum. Welcome to the Wide World Of

Metadata Logging.

You’re soaking in it, Muthafucka’s!!!

[ShazzieB]

41. Yep.

[HuskyOffset]

51. That's reversed

Metadata is just the tip of the iceberg, the real treasure isn't that party A made a call to party B, it's the actual conversation they had.

[dlk]

32. They are truly running scared

And unless there’s an actual statute they are looking to enforce, this is just more poorly executed political theater.

[hadEnuf]

33. This should be known as

"The Guilty Asshole's Suit" for obvious reasons.

So I guess the telecom companies should defy Congress at the order of these fools? Suspected criminals now get to dictate the parameters of a Congressional investigation?

I mean really, just who the hell do these people think they are?

[niyad]

35. First of all, I only see 9 sigs. Second, are they kidding? By what authority do these

punks threaten such powerful entities. It sounds like a petulant child whining, "if I don't get my way, I'm going to hold my breath til I turn blue." To which, of course, the proper response is, "go for it. The second you pass out, you'll start breathing again." Shrug.

I am going to have such fun with q-bert this week.

[SCantiGOP]

36. Hell, I wouldn't consent either

Just like I wouldn't consent to have the baggie I threw out of the car during a traffic stop analyzed, but I don't think my refusal to consent would mean anything to the cops or the courts.

[Bird Lady]

37. If this goes to the supreme branch of republicans

They will find in the members favor.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

38. I'm thinkin' they're skeert... Shitless.

[SharonClark]

39. The GQP braintrust.

I'm certain their corporate overlords are shaking in the boots.

[Jon King]

40. Not a fair fight, these companies have lawyers for their lawyers already.

Big companies have so many lawyers and expertise its not even a fair fight. I will take a large company and its lawyers over these congress clowns any day.

[monkeyman1]

42. corporations lawyers---------- conress criiter's public defenders .

[Piratedog]

43. They are public employees. No privacy when related to their official duties.

[wnylib]

44. Makes me even more interested in

what those records will reveal. Must be some pretty damning stuff. Can't wait to see it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

45. I am trying to decide

How much of that list is smokescreen. I am thinking there are only three or so that will have anything of interest on them, and the rest were cajoled into adding their names to make the list seem big and bad.

[PatrickforB]

46. Force the companies to release the records anyway, and then charge these Republicans

with conspiracy to commit treason.

[LiberalLovinLug]

47. And there's still no moment of lucidity for any Republican voter?

Like uh...why they still are so so desperate for the truth to remain hidden?

No? No one?

[The Wizard]

48. They're signaling us that

they were complicit in the failed coup d'etat. Federal prison and public horse whippings would be a reasonable remedy. I have no sympathy for traitors.

[apnu]

49. All the Telecom companies are laughing in 'lawyers on retainer'

Corporate lawyers live for that kind of action. Slam dunk justification of their salaries.

Fuck around Republicans and find out.

[usaf-vet]

50. So who is the pivotal idiot in this group? Someone has to be the alpha puppy convincing the down....

..... stream rationally challenged that signing this letter is a must. At the very least, it is obstruction of justice, and it tells the Jan 6 commission they have something to hide...... look here.

[DallasNE]

52. There is no expectation of privacy

On sites like Facebook and Twitter and others I'm sure. By lumping them in with the telecom companies they weaken any case they may have. Also, SCOTUS ordered Trumps tax records to be turned over to Congress so what basis is there for denial of this Congressional request. I just don't see it.

[Escurumbele]

53. Now Pelosi and the commission know who the first 11 people's records must be examined

Thank you jack asses...Thank you for providing that information, the commission was not sure who to start with, but your help is very much appreciated, you have saved the commission some debate hours.

[BlueStater]

55. Jordan, Gaetz, Gohmert, Gosar, Greene, Cawthorn, and Boebert.

The usual motley crew of fucking nuts.

[hadEnuf]

57. Let them persue their legal remedies from a jail cell.

Where they belong.

[Hekate]

58. They are outing themselves, aren't they?

[Dave says]

59. "All legal remedies" means ...

We’re as guilty as hell, but we’re going to tie this up in the court for months and years until either we’re in power again (and can shut it down) or until people have totally forgotten what January 6 was.

[drray23]

61. and given how slow our justice system is, it might just work.nt.

[ancianita]

60. So why 13 companies, again? I mean, J6 Committee sent letters to 35 companies to preserve records.

These 9 cannot not consent to investigation. It's not like there's no precedent. They don't have special rights of privacy that Schiff and Swalwell don't have.

"The Select Committee today sent letters to 35 private-sector entities, including telecommunications, email, and social media companies, instructing them to preserve records which may be relevant to the Select Committee's investigation," a select committee spokesperson said in a statement Monday. "The Select Committee is at this point gathering facts, not alleging wrongdoing by any individual."

The letters to individual companies seek the preservation of records between April 1, 2020, and Jan. 31, 2021. The letters say there are attached lists of individuals whose records are sought. Those lists were not released publicly...

Of the 35 preservation orders issued on Monday, telecom firms face the more complex demands. The companies were asked to preserve certain cell site locations to identify from where calls were made, records for incoming and outgoing calls, and text message content...

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/30/1032615984/house-panel-investigating-the-capitol-attack-orders-35-companies-to-preserve-rec

[Linda Ed]

62. So the law says ...who will enforce it?

18 U.S. Code § 1505: “Whoever…by any threatening letter or communication…endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede…the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any…investigation is being had by either House-Shall be fined or imprisoned”

[FakeNoose]

63. They all signed the EULA when they got their phones, am I right?

Everybody signs the EULA. Nobody ever reads the EULA before they sign it.

[Grins]

64. Imagine if Democrats - or Hillary - did this...

The Reich-wing outrage machine would run 24x365 until it blew a hole in the universe.

Empty threat. Bring it on mofo’s.