Senator Mike Lee of Utah has demanded an in-depth investigation into the House Jan. 6 Committee, accusing the panel of bias in their collection and presentation of evidence.
“Why didn’t Liz Cheney and Adam Kizinger ever refer to any of these tapes?” Lee said on X, challenging the video that depicted Capitol Police escorting individuals through the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Maybe they never looked for them. Maybe they never even questioned their own narrative. Maybe they were just too busy selectively leaking the text messages of Republicans they wanted to defeat,” Lee said.
Ex-Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois were the only Republican representatives on the nine-member panel, all chosen by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Kinzinger chose not to run for reelection in 2022, while Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming defeated Cheney in the 2022 primary by nearly 40 points.
“Given the evidence they apparently suppressed, how much footage (and how many other records) do you think Nancy Pelosi and the J6 committee deliberately lost or destroyed?” Lee said.
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The Utah senator also responded to a post by Cheney where she shared a video of the unrest outside the Capitol that day.
“Liz, we’ve seen footage like that a million times. You made sure we saw that—and nothing else. It’s the other stuff—what you deliberately hid from us—that we find so upsetting. Nice try,” Lee said.
House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana released 40,000 hours of security camera footage from the Jan. 6 Capitol protest.
According to the Justice Department, over 1,100 people have been charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, and more than 400 have been charged with assaulting police officers. The damage to the building from the protests is estimated at $1.5 million.
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