The House Selection Committee on January 6 has published a comprehensive application for records to the National Archives and Documents Administration and several other agencies, including the telephone records of members of Congress, as part of its investigation. on the Capitol riot.
The nine-member group, which held its first hearing around the Jan. 6 riot, began its investigation process with a wide range of applications published Wednesday.
Among its requests, the selection committee reiterated several submissions in late March by various House committees, including “all documents and communications related in some way to the statements of Donald Trump or anyone else on January 6. “, the Twitter messages of the former president of that day, all the video or photo media taken at the White House on January 6 and all the documents and communications of the White House on January 6 related to the concentration of that morning, the march on the Capitol, the violence on the Capitol, former President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and any aspect of the joint session of Congress in which the certification of electoral votes took place.
The selection committee also requests all documents and communications from the White House on Jan. 6 belonging to several members of the Trump administration, including, among others, Sarah Matthews, Hope Hicks, Mark Meadows, Stephan Miller, Peter Navarro, Kayleigh McEnany, Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Melania Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Rudy Giuliani.
There are also White House documents and communications belonging to any member of Congress or Congress personnel, the Department of Defense, the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Interior, or any element of the National Guard. . has been requested.
Among those listed in the application, the Selection Committee has requested “all call logs and phone logs that identify calls made to or from the identified persons,” all schedules of any of the persons and all documents related to the meetings of their schedules.
The selection committee has also requested all records of visits to the White House from 6 January.
In addition to reiterating March’s request, the selection committee has asked for information about the 2020 presidential election, such as any communications or documents related to plans to challenge election results, and what Trump was told afterwards. of the election on its outcome.
“This is our first request for materials and we anticipate additional requests as our investigation continues. Send this information to the selection committee no later than September 9, 2021,” the committee chairman and representative wrote. Democrat Bennie Johnson.
The committee has also requested information and records related to “Recruitment, planning, coordination and other preparations for the previous rallies and including January 6 and the January 6 violence” and “Responsibilities in the transfer of power and the ‘Obligation to Follow the Rule of Law’.
Wednesday’s request does not mean the information will be made public immediately. Under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, public access to records that are considered “presidential records” will be allowed under the Freedom of Information Act from five years after the end of the Administration’s oversight.
The applications of the selection committee are extended through the Executive Branch, requesting information and records from the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Justice, the Federal Office of ‘Research, and at the Center and the Directorate General of National Intelligence.
The selection committee has requested the production of the records before September 9, giving the departments approximately two weeks.