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True Colors: J6 Staff Lash Out at Liz Cheney for Allegedly Burying Parts of the Investigation
Jonathan Turley: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, FREE SPEECH, POLITICS ^ | 11/27/2022

Posted on 11/27/2022 8:54:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind

There is a deepening division on the J6 Committee as staffers turn on Liz Cheney over the final report on the January 6th riot. Angry rhetoric is flying with staffers accusing the Committee of becoming a “Cheney 2024 campaign” while both the Cheney spokesperson and Committee spokesperson lashed out at the staff members as “disgruntled” and producing shoddy or biased work. The underlying issue, however, is important and revealing. The Committee’s color coated teams include a “Blue Team” on the failure to prepare adequately for the riot. That part of the investigation is reportedly being dumped or reduced. Members of the “Green” and “Purple” teams are also reportedly irate.

Cheney was soundly defeated in her primary in Wyoming and will soon leave Congress. She is being pushed by some Democrats as a possible surprise candidate for House Speaker if they could get a few Republican votes. That seems highly unlikely. The Republicans are likely to end up with the identical margin held by the Democrats for the past two years. Alternatively, some Democrats want Cheney to run for president either to dog Donald Trump in the primary debates or to run as an independent to siphon off votes in the general election.

That seems to be the suspicion for some staffers in the Washington Post story.

Fifteen former and current staffers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, expressed concerns that important findings unrelated to Trump will not become available to the American public…

Several committee staff members were floored earlier this month when they were told that a draft report would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committee’s “Gold Team,” excluding reams of other investigative work.

Potentially left on the cutting room floor, or relegated to an appendix, were many revelations from the “Blue Team” — the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence community’s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol. The proposed report would also cut back on much of the work of the Green Team, which looked at financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and the Purple Team, which examined militia groups and extremism.

“We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,” said one former committee staffer. “But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.”

If true, the report will largely track the virtual exclusive focus of the hearings with open references to the 2024 election as an overriding concern.

Some of us have lamented that the J6 Committee could have been so much more than a one-sided, highly partisan investigation. House Democrats barred two Republican members originally selected by GOP leaders, who then boycotted the panel in response.

Even with the GOP boycott, the Committee could have followed the type of balanced inquiry that pursued allegations tied to the Pearl Harbor attack or Watergate. It could have insisted on balanced hearings with witnesses and dissenting views.

Nevertheless, the committee revealed important, often disturbing details. It was important for Americans to hear from figures like former attorney general Bill Barr and White House lawyers who struggled to counter unfounded advice given to Trump by outside lawyers on challenging the 2020 election. There were painful scenes of Capitol police overwhelmed at barricades and members of Congress hunkered down in offices.

Yet, the focus on a single approved narrative gave the hearings the feel of an infomercial selling a product that most of us bought two years earlier.

Now, staffers are turning on Cheney who appears to have objected to parts of the final report and wants the report to focus on Trump. Cheney’s spokesman Jeremy Adler said that the staffers in the other teams produced “subpar material” full of “liberal biases.”

Tim Mulvey, the spokesperson for the committee, criticized the staffers speaking to the media as “disgruntled” and added that “they’ve forgotten their duties as public servants and their cowardice is helping Donald Trump and others responsible for the violence of January 6th.”

It is obviously hard to address the alleged shoddy work on these other teams or claims of liberal bias. However, the “Blue Team” was a particular interest for some of us. The J6 Committee virtually ignored the issue despite ample questions over decisions by Congress leading to the riot.

The Democrats in the final hearing hammered away at documents showing that the agency knew about violent threats in the days leading up to Jan. 6th. However, the Democrats have refused to pursue the lack of preparations on Capitol Hill as a focus of the hearing. On the day of the riot, many of us noted (before the breach of security) that there was a relatively light police presence around the Capitol despite the obvious risk of a riot. Once the crowd surged, they quickly were able to gain access to the building. Conservative media have featured a video showing an officer standing by as crowds poured into the building.

That obviously does not mean that there was not violence or that Capitol police did not bravely fight to protect the building. Most of us have denounced the riot as a desecration of our constitutional process.

Moreover, at some point, officers may have shifted to deescalating as crowds surged into the building. The question is why there were not more substantial barriers, like those used at the White House. Instead, some barriers were composed of a few officers using their bikes.

The available evidence indicates that the House was warned and that the need for National Guard deployments were discussed. There is a concern that, after criticizing such deployment and fencing around the White House in the earlier riots, the Democrats did not want to be seen following the same course.

An Inspector General report indicated that police were restricted by Congress in what they could use on that day. Previously, it was disclosed that offers of National Guard support were not accepted prior to the protests. The D.C. government under Mayor Muriel Bowser used only a small number of guardsmen in traffic positions.

That focus was rejected by the Committee members and there were no dissenting views voiced on the Committee as well as a virtual bar on opposing explanations or interpretations of evidence.

The GOP is now expected to fully investigate what the Congress knew and what it did in the days leading to the breach of the Capitol. Clearly, Cheney and others did not believe that the Blue Team full findings were ready to be released. However, those findings could be reviewed by the new GOP majority as it seeks full disclosure on why the Capitol was so quickly overrun on January 6th.



TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: fallgirl; gettherope; jan6; january6; lizardcheney; lizcheney; quisling; wyoming
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1 posted on 11/27/2022 8:54:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

Gosh, it’s almost as if she can’t be trusted.


2 posted on 11/27/2022 8:57:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rats turning on other Rats


3 posted on 11/27/2022 8:57:35 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biased? Tell me it ain’t so! Can’t make this stuff up.


4 posted on 11/27/2022 9:20:17 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: SunkenCiv
Gosh, it’s almost as if she can’t be trusted.

LOL. You got it bro. 👍

5 posted on 11/27/2022 9:42:14 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: SeekAndFind

CYA. Hopefully, the GOP House investigations will get to the bottom of what really happened on J6. Release the 14k hours of video. Subpoena Ray Epps.


6 posted on 11/27/2022 10:06:17 PM PST by kabar
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To: SunkenCiv

Liz Cheney’s usefulness to the Democrats is over and traitors have no real new friends. She will probably still pop up now and then like Greta Thunberg does but she’ll have no influence.


7 posted on 11/27/2022 10:10:21 PM PST by Entropy Squared (The Rush to Chaos)
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To: Entropy Squared; Mark17

“Thanks Liz, it’ll be nice replacing you in Wyoming.”

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4111660/posts?page=50#50


8 posted on 11/27/2022 10:19:57 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She’s got an R after her name. Of course the staffers would back stab her.

Doesn’t matter if she sold out, she’s got the “original sin” and there is no baptism that will wipe that away in their eyes.


9 posted on 11/27/2022 10:41:35 PM PST by glorgau
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To: SeekAndFind

Tim Mulvaney is a lying schmuck. Trump continually called for peaceful protests.

End of story re the lying bastard.


10 posted on 11/27/2022 11:29:37 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: SeekAndFind

Baloney. This is just trying to rehabilitate her image for future political office.


11 posted on 11/27/2022 11:38:06 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
Baloney. This is just trying to rehabilitate her image for future political office.

Doesn’t she think she is the second coming of Abraham Lincoln?

12 posted on 11/27/2022 11:47:16 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: SeekAndFind
The Committee’s color coated teams include a “Blue Team” on the failure to prepare adequately for the riot.

There was a riot?

13 posted on 11/28/2022 12:00:23 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liz being Liz


14 posted on 11/28/2022 1:09:51 AM PST by Nifster (OI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: SeekAndFind

Cheney should retire into well-deserved obscurity.

She’s consumed with hate.


15 posted on 11/28/2022 2:51:59 AM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: sauropod
Dickless Cheney should join Dick Cheney in retirement. She is more despised then her father. The rats better hope she doesn't take more votes from the democrats instead of republicans.
16 posted on 11/28/2022 3:45:16 AM PST by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: SeekAndFind

Pig Liz glommed on to RATs out of her sick hatred because Trump didn’t worship her daddy. Now she is finding out that when you sell out to the other side, neither side likes you because they know who you are and what you are capable of.

Good job Lizzie Your only function now is a tool for hate and destruction.


17 posted on 11/28/2022 3:49:22 AM PST by dforest (What are we sittin' around for? )
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To: SeekAndFind

Why do we keep seeing this bitch in the headlines??? I thought she got voted out and was gone!!??


18 posted on 11/28/2022 3:51:43 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

That seems to be consistent with the hearings. Trump impeachment 3.0.


19 posted on 11/28/2022 4:09:51 AM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public."

After witnessing the disaster that was the 9/11 c0mmission, why would anyone, especially someone holding a "prestigious job", believe that "an important fact finding investigation that would inform the public" was not just so much BS?

20 posted on 11/28/2022 4:27:26 AM PST by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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