Exclusive: House Democrats Won’t Release Required Staff Reports In J6 ProbeBy Tristan Justice
January 26, 2022
Democrats are again stonewalling Republican attempts to conduct legitimate oversight of the Capitol security failures on Jan. 6, 2021 by refusing to compel monthly reports from the Jan. 6 Committee, as required by House rules.
On Jan. 19, House Republicans investigating the Jan. 6 security breach demanded House Administration Chair Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., enforce rules that mandate the regular release of reports on committee progress.
“Monthly reports for all Committees are supposed to be posted on the Committee on House Administration’s website to ensure transparency and provide accountability for Committee investigation and use of official resources,” wrote Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Rodney Davis, R-Ill., in the letter obtained by The Federalist.
The Committee’s Congressional Handbook requires such reports to include:
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“The J6 Committee has yet to submit a monthly report, despite a requirement to do so,” Banks and Davis wrote. “Reviewing these monthly reports and tracking committee spending is an essential part of transparency and it is concerning that such information has been kept from the American people.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee on Jan. 6, however, has operated entirely in secret just as the Democrats’ ad hoc impeachment inquiry on the pretext of Ukraine did in 2019, with J6 Committee members deposing private citizens whose appearance is compelled under questionable authority. Even in 2019, however, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who also now serves on the Jan. Committee, complied with the Committee’s Congressional Handbook and released monthly reports.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/01/26/exclusive-house-democrats-wont-release-required-staff-reports-in-j6-probe/
