Kinzinger ‘frustrated’ by DOJ’s pace handling Jan. 6
by Judy Kurtz - 06/30/22 10:27 AM ET
Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he’s “frustrated” by the pace of indictments coming from the Justice Department related to the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.
“I’m frustrated at the speed,” the Illinois Republican, one of two GOP lawmakers on the House select committee investigating last year’s attack, told Stephen Colbert during a Wednesday appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show.”
“I know they have a job to do,” Kinzinger said of the department led by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Critics have accused the Justice Department of dragging its feet in acting on the House’s criminal referrals of Mark Meadows and Dan Scavino, the White House chief of staff and social media director, respectively, under former President Trump. The Justice Department declined to charge Meadows and Scavino with contempt of Congress.
“I am frustrated that for instance, Mark Meadows, and Dan Scavino have refused to come in and talk to Congress,” Kinzinger said.
The Jan. 6 committee, he said, has “the power of subpoena, similar to what a court has.”
“And the Justice Department has failed to indict them for that. And so all it does is send a message you just have to resist the select committee and you may be able to resist all penalties,” Kinzinger told Colbert.
“That’s been a frustration,” he said.
“We have these two investigations — and again, I don’t know what Justice is doing or not doing — but assuming they’re investigating, we have our investigation that’s very public. This all kind of feeds together,” Kinzinger said during his late-night TV interview.
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