OMG BREAKING: there was a LOUD GUFFAW here in the room as they showed video of @HawleyMO running away, and another when they played it in slow motion. Loudest reaction of any moment during the three hearings I’ve attended #January6thCommitteeHearing
THREAD: Meadows. Recently, the DoJ told the court that it wasn't an OLC memo that prevented them from indicting Meadows for contempt of congress. That leaves prosecutorial discretion, and allows them to indict him for other stuff INCLUDING contempt. 1/ documentcloud.org/documents/2208…
That's a big deal because lots of folks were saying the DoJ "let Meadows walk" over an OLC memo. We know now that's not the case, and absolute immunity doesn't exist for former presidents and their top staff. So why did they decline to indict Meadows for contempt? 2/
Well, let's recall what happened with Navarro. The DoJ subpoenaed him for his communications with trump. He came in and they offered him a deal, which he rejected. So they indicted him the next day for contempt. 3/ cnn.com/2022/07/15/pol…
Whenever a fed agency gets defensive instead of being forthcoming, that's when my hackles go up. I remember being in an exec meeting at the VA asking the director if a certain scheduling action didn't amount to a "wait list" and I was told NEVER to say the words "wait list" again
See, the management was telling the schedulers to make the "desired date" of a veterans appointment the same as the date of the appointment, effectively making it look like the patient wasn't waiting at all for their appointment.
I argued that the "desired date" should be TODAY so we could accurately track how long it was taking for veterans to be seen, and zeroing that out by making the desired date the day of the appointment was effectively a digital wait list.
THREAD: let’s talk about this weak-sauce BS response from the @SecretService. “In January 2021, before any inspection was opened by OIG on this subject, USSS began resetting its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month systems migration” 1/
First, it’s SUPER sketch that they bring up the OIG probe that began February 26, but don’t address that TWO congressional committees asked them for all relevant 1/6 documents on JANUARY 16. 2/
Why did you continue “resetting phones” after you received this letter, and why on earth would ANY agency continue with a planned January “systems migration” right after the attack on the capitol - ESPECIALLY the USSS? 3/
THINGS THE DOJ IS INVESTIGATING WITH REGARDS TO 1/6. A THREAD. I’ll update as more investigations become public.
1. Anyone who impeded or attempted to impede the electoral count on 1/6 including members of congress and anyone in the executive branch nytimes.com/2022/04/05/us/…
There were PHYSICAL FIGHT challenges in the 12/18 meeting. POWELL testified that she sought to see the president without an appointment, and they had about 15 minutes alone with donald. "I bet cipollone set a land speed record." 1/
CIPOLLONE: i walked in. i saw flynn and powell. I was not happy to see them there. The Overstock person was there. I looked at him and asked "who are you". I don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. 2/
Cipollone didn't understand how they had gotten in. POWELL says trump was very interested in what she was saying for those 15 minutes. HERSCHMANN testified that FLYNN took out a diagram that supposedly showed who was communicating with voting machines... 3/
Wasn’t there a JUST a story that DOJ HAS been discussing the implications of indicting Donald? And now a story that they don’t talk about him? Which is it? WAIT! Is the media playing both sides? Follow the facts and make your own call. I’m sick of the sideshow. 1/
Source: Ken Dilanian. Who has me blocked ever since he mistakenly declared the Mueller report exonerated Donald. He says DoJ talks about Donald all the time AND he says there’s no evidence Donald is a target of any investigation which is also incorrect. 2/ nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna3…
There IS evidence Donald is a target including the fact that we’ve seen more than one federal grand jury subpoena seeking info about him and one that names him SPECIFICALLY asking Navarro for all communication with Donald. 3/