Schiff: Jan. 6 investigation going 'straight to subpoenas' in some cases
Source: Politico
The select panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection is preparing to issue immediate subpoenas to witnesses whom the panel expects to resist cooperation, one Democratic member said Tuesday.
"In some cases, we're making requests we think will be complied with," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, told reporters. "In other cases, we're going straight to subpoenas where we think we're dealing with recalcitrant witnesses."
It's a sharp break from previous practices in recent House investigations, including the impeachment of Donald Trump that Schiff led in 2019, when committees gave potential witnesses weeks to voluntarily comply before issuing subpoenas. Schiff said the change is an acknowledgment of the short timeline that the Jan. 6 panel faces to try to unearth details about the Trump White House's role in the Capitol attack and the former president's attempts to subvert the 2020 election results.
The committee is going to "forgo some of the time-consuming steps" that have dogged previous investigations, Schiff added, Compared with the independent 9/11 Commission two decades ago, he said, the Jan. 6 panel is moving with "great rapidity."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schiff-jan-6-investigation-going-straight-to-subpoenas-in-some-cases/ar-AAOFOtb
Hekate
(90,202 posts)Unlike the Man from Bakersfield, He Who Would be Speaker, who I wish would just go away.
FarPoint
(12,209 posts)Let's not soft peddle this investigation....go for the jugular.
orangecrush
(19,237 posts)Start slapping.
hibbing
(10,076 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)Is everything being done behind closed doors? Where is the public's right to know?
Compare and contrast this to the Senate Watergate hearings lead by Sen. Sam Ervin where we had complete public coverage. Why is America going backwards on such matters of transparency?
BumRushDaShow
(127,322 posts)CSPAN has been running hearings when there are any from all kinds of Committees. For this Select Committee, the last one I believe, was the one focused on the Capitol Police and the LEO response. In fact, that was actually their FIRST official (and only) one so far.
I.e., so far, there are no hearings going on daily or weekly. They have been issuing document requests etc. (see this - https://www.npr.org/2021/08/25/1030933461/jan-6-committee-trump-investigation) but those aren't done as "hearings".
Here is their website - https://january6th.house.gov/
You can click around the site to see what they are doing (e.g., their press releases). They currently have no hearings scheduled at the moment (probably because they are in the process of discovery and getting legal counsel situated).
So there really isn't any "compare or contrast" with Watergate at this point.
ffr
(22,649 posts)blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Let them know you're not playing around this time.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Charge them, try them, convict them, lock them up.
Botany
(70,291 posts)... Miller who gave a stand down orders to the D.C. National Guard on 1/4/21. Before those orders were given
the D.C. National Guard had the authority to operate so as to respond to threats and protect the Citizens
of D.C., Government Buildings, and Federal Government operations. I believe they were to protect the D.C. local
government too.
WASHINGTON President Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper on Monday, upending the militarys leadership at a time when Mr. Trumps refusal to concede the election has created a rocky and potentially precarious transition.
Mr. Trump announced the decision on Twitter, writing in an abrupt post that Mr. Esper had been terminated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/politics/esper-defense-secretary.html
Now I agree with Gen. Milley, Speaker Pelosi, and CIA Director Gina Haspel that Trump was and still is bat shit crazy but he damn well knew what he was doing in trying to overthrow the United States Government by sending a mob of his violent goons to storm the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden as President. It was a coup. End of story. And some members of Congress, Fox News, right wing militia groups, active and retired members of the military, police and firefighters, and shits like Roger Stone, Eric Prince, and others were in on this treason from day one. And this operation had been in the works from the time Trump lost the election.
Lock 'em up. It has been 9 months.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,111 posts)The House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the US Capitol is considering issuing a blitz of subpoenas for top Trump White House aides including the former chief and deputy chief of staff, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The subpoenas which are expected to be authorized as early as this week would place House select committee investigators inside the White House and Trump campaign war rooms at the time of the insurrection as the panel prepares to ramp up the pace of its inquiry.
House select committee investigators are considering subpoenas for call detail records or testimony of key aides including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino and former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, the source said.
The scope and subjects of the subpoenas are not yet finalized and discussions about who to include in the first tranche are still ongoing, the source said, although the three Trump officials are presently considered likely targets.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/capitol-attack-panel-said-to-be-considering-subpoenas-to-trump-white-house-aides/ar-AAOGyHs