Late last month, far-right podcast personalities Nicholas Fuentes and Patrick Casey—individuals in no way involved with the smattering of crimes committed that day (one of them wasn’t even there)—received disclosure demands for a range of private and otherwise questionably relevant records, including encrypted messages and bank statements. Relying on reports from those paragons of ethical journalism at the Daily Beast and the Anti-Defamation League, the demand letters vaguely claim that the pair’s “election protest activities” put them somehow “within the scope” of the committee’s investigation, therefore, making them subject to its deposition and disclosure whims.
Author Kline wrote a fair article on Congressional committee abuses but neglected mentioning this isn’t a real committee without the required amount of members. Additionally, the bipartisan requirement isn’t truly met with two Never-Trumper assistant Democrats leading this inquisition thus solidifying it’s illegitimacy.