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House Republicans recommended disgraced ex-Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney face a criminal investigation related to “witness tampering” as vice chair of the illegally established and since disbanded Select Committee on Jan. 6.
Previous documents released by congressional investigators reviewing the Jan. 6 panel’s work revealed Cheney coordinated with the Select Committee’s star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, using the encrypted Signal app. The pair communicated to circumvent Hutchinson’s own attorney, Stefan Passantino, whom the Jan. 6 Committee ultimately targeted with an operation intended to strip him of his law license. Passantino was cleared of any misconduct following multiple investigations from ethics watchdogs.
In the House interim report released on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers led by Barry Loudermilk of Georgia cited Cheney’s communication with Hutchinson as a basis for referring the former congresswoman for a criminal investigation run by the Justice Department.
“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” the House report read. “This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause.”
House investigators also demanded that the FBI launch a probe into Cheney for “procuring another person to commit perjury” based on Hutchinson’s sudden change in testimony following a change in legal counsel. Hutchinson terminated Passantino as her attorney just before appearing before the Jan. 6 Committee in a sensationalized television hearing where the ex-White House aide delivered her most outlandish claims related to former President Donald Trump.
Hutchinson went from a benign fact-witness without much to offer Jan. 6 investigators to claiming Trump had attempted to violently hijack the presidential limousine in order to drive himself to the Capitol and even agreed with demonstrators who chanted “hang Mike Pence” as the riot unfolded. --->READ MORE HERE
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A House Republican-led panel on Tuesday called for a federal criminal investigation of former Rep. Liz Cheney for possible “criminal witness tampering” with a star witness while serving as vice chairman of the since-disbanded House select committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot.
Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Cassidy Hutchinson, a first-term White House aide to then-President Donald Trump, communicated via the encrypted Signal app before her explosive and later largely debunked public testimony in June 2022, according to documents previously released by House Republicans.
Citing those communications, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight on Tuesday issued an interim report calling for the Justice Department to investigate Cheney as Trump prepares to retake the White House.
“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” the report from chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) says.
“This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause.”
Records made public in October by the same committee revealed that Cheney and Hutchinson used the Signal app to swap messages to arrange calls over the app, which is used by Washington journalists and politicians for its end-to-end encryption, which inhibits interception by authorities.
The content of the voice calls is unknown, but one message showed Hutchinson providing Cheney with a screenshot of her then-attorney Stefan Passantino suggesting she not cooperate with the panel that investigated Trump’s role in the mob attack by his supporters challenging the 2020 election results.
Hutchinson had been in the midst of six transcribed interviews with the select committee and her communication with Cheney on June 6, 2022, preceded her dramatic public testimony 22 days later. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
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