January 6 panel has 'significant testimony' the White House 'had been told to do something'

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)The Democratic chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection said Sunday that the panel has "significant testimony" that the White House "had been told to do something" during the deadly attack last year.

"We have significant testimony that leads us to believe that the White House had been told to do something," Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat of Mississippi, told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union." "We want to verify all of it so that when we produce our report and when we have the hearings, the public will have an opportunity to see for themselves."

He added: "Well, the only thing I can say, it's highly unusual for anyone in charge of anything to watch what's going on and do nothing."

Asked whether he believes then-President Donald Trump's actions during the insurrection warrant criminal referral, Thompson replied: "We don't know ... If there's anything we come upon as a committee that we think would warrant a referral to the Department of Justice, we'll do that."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/02/politics/bennie-thompson-trump-capitol-insurrection/index.html

[tclambert]

1. At the least, he violated the Seinfeld law. If you could do something good and just watched,

you end up in jail. Some call it a "Good Samaritan" law. That's probably not a thing in DC, is it? They watch people die due to their inaction all the time. Everybody who offered "thoughts and prayers" would get arrested.

[brush]

3. It's certainly a failure to abide by their oath of office.

The House committee is playing this out well. The hearings will go pulic for months and then the report will come out a month of so before the mid-terms.

We just might keep our Congressional majorities.

[sarcasmo]

4. Dereliction of duty: the shameful failure to fulfill one's obligations.

[crickets]

5. This. nt

[DallasNE]

2. A Criminal Referral Can Come From The FBI Too

Hundreds have already been charged and many convicted. It was a gigantic crime scene, including at the Willard Hotel. So what is the hold up. If that was somebody thought to be in possession of a half ounce of weed you can be sure a criminal referral would have been handed down long ago. There should be no hierarchy in law enforcement.

[robbob]

6. I hope this isn't the best they can come up with...

They planned this, they invited the insurrection-ists to the rally, TFG and his cronies pointed them at the capital and set them loose, they told the national guard to stand down, they disarmed the capital police and left them virtually defenceless, the were in conferences at the Willard hotel co-ordinating and monitoring the violence in real time.

If at the end of all this all we get is a shrug and “oh well, he really should have done something sooner to stop the mob” then I will be really pissed of.