Congress's 1/6 Committee Claims Absolute Power as it Investigates Citizens With No Judicial Limits

Substack ^ | 1/20/2022 | glenn greenwald

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The Committee plotted with JPMorgan and its lawyer, former Obama AG Loretta Lynch, to obtain a citizen's financial records with no possibility of judicial review.

On November 22, the 1/6 Committee served a subpoena on Taylor Budowich — a former spokesman for the Trump campaign who never worked for the U.S. Government — that requested a wide range of documents as well as his deposition testimony. On December 14, Budowich voluntarily complied by handing over a large amount of his personal records, and then, on December 22, he flew to Washington at his own expense and submitted to questioning. There is no suggestion that Budowich was engaged in any violence or other illegal acts at the Capitol on January 6. Their only interest in this private citizen is his connection to the Trump campaign and his stated view that he believed the 2020 election was marred by fraud.

After he furnished the committee with those documents and then testified, Budowich learned from others that the committee was issuing subpoenas directly to the banks used by other individuals for their personal accounts. He thus requested that his lawyer notify his own bank, JPMorgan Chase, that he would object to their cooperation with any subpoena without first providing notice to him so that he can have time to seek a legal ruling in court.

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Yes - I went through there driving up to Colorado through Raton Pass, from Houston area.

My dad was a piano player and sang that song. I grew up in Roswell, NM and Midland, Texas.

Thanks for the link - love Bob Wills. Asleep at the Wheel was just getting started and one of my favorites when I was attending UT. We used to go see them play at Armadillo World Headquarters.