Capitol riot investigators 'engaged' with US Marshals
by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
| October 14, 2021 10:36 PM The U.S. Marshals could soon deploy against witnesses facing subpoenas from Capitol riot investigators, a House Democrat warned this week.
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a member of the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, presaged what comes next even before the panel announced that it is moving forward with holding former Trump White House chief strategist Steven Bannon in criminal contempt for failing to show up for a deposition on Thursday. The next step is a business meeting planned for Tuesday.
"We have engaged with a wide variety of law enforcement offices, including the U.S. Marshals, in order to issue the subpoenas," the Florida Democrat said on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday. "We will use everything, as you said, with all due respect, we will use all of the agencies and all of the tools at our disposal to issue the subpoenas and enforce them."
Former President Donald Trump directed a quartet of close advisers, including Bannon, not to comply with subpoenas issued by the House Jan. 6 Select Committee that sought documents by last week and testimony this week.
"Mr. Bannon has declined to cooperate with the Select Committee and is instead hiding behind the former President's insufficient, blanket, and vague statements regarding privileges he has purported to invoke," said Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson in a press statement on Thursday. "We reject his position entirely. The Select Committee will not tolerate defiance of our subpoenas, so we must move forward with proceedings to refer Mr. Bannon for criminal contempt."
Bannon's team sent a letter last week informing the committee that he would not cooperate with the select committee's subpoena.
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