December 23, 2022

Looks like that lovely bipartisan sheen sprayed all over the Jan. 6th committee came at the expense of the larger picture. Turns out Liz Cheney is a thoroughly political animal who thinks about her political future, and didn't want to sow the Republican soil with salt! Via this report a month ago from the Washington Post:

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.”

When asked for comment, Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said this:

“Some staff have submitted subpar material for the report that reflects long-held liberal biases about federal law enforcement, Republicans, and sociological issues outside the scope of the Select Committee’s work. She won’t sign onto any ‘narrative’ that suggests Republicans are inherently racist or smears men and women in law enforcement, or suggests every American who believes God has blessed America is a white supremacist.”

So there we go. Liz is a right-winger, through and through, to no one's surprise. Just thought you'd like to know the backstory about what isn't in the final report -- and why.

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