William Barr has talked to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, the panel’s chair said on Sunday. Speakin...
William Barr has talked to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol breach, the panel’s chair said on Sunday. Speaking on Face the Nation, Bennie Thompson said — “We’ve had conversations with the former attorney general already. We have talked to Department of Defense individuals.”
Thompson was responding to a question from host Margaret Brennan about a draft executive order, disclosed Friday by POLITICO, that would have had the Defense Department seize the nation’s voting machines as part of a massive investigation into possible voter fraud. “So, if you are using the military to potentially seize voting machines, even though it’s a discussion, the public needs to know — we’ve never had that before.”
The order, which was never issued, was part of a trove of documents released by the National Archives to the committee after President Trump lost a legal challenge to have materials blocked. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Trump’s claim of executive privilege.
Thompson said the Jan. 6 committee did not have proof that “an operational plan” to seize voting machines was developed. “The draft itself is reason enough to believe that it was being proposed,” he said. “Our job is to get to the facts and circumstances of how far did they go.”
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