The Jan. 6 investigation has entered a new phase. Investigators are ready to unleash an avalanche of subpoenas and bracing for bruising fights with Trump’s inner circle. Things are about to move fast.
But they're already getting results from some corners. A select committee aide said the panel has received responses from seven executive-branch agencies to its first, sweeping set of Trump administration document requests.
Thompson told POLITICO recently that he hopes to complete the committee's inquiry this spring, an extraordinarily tight deadline for an investigation of such scope and scale. The panel is attempting to piece together Trump’s pre-Jan. 6 efforts to overturn his election loss, his attempt to mobilize the Justice Department in support of that crusade and the thinking behind his effort to call supporters to Washington on the day Congress gathers to certify presidential election results.
“We're moving with great rapidity,” said Rep. Adam Schiff , one of the panel’s seven Democrats and a manager of that 2019 impeachment. “We're also going to forgo some of the time-consuming steps and where we do meet resistance we intend to push back hard and fast.” The Jan. 6 panel is hoping to get a boost from the Biden DOJ as it takes a more urgent tack in trying to obtain sensitive information. Where Trump’s DOJ intervened to block House inquiries — supporting executive privilege and immunity claims that Democrats viewed as outlandish — Biden’s administration has indicated it won’t stand in the way.
Nearly a month has passed since his panel’s initial document requests to federal agencies. which the committee says have resulted in “thousands of pages of documents” turned over to investigators. In addition, Trump’s lawyers are poring over documents provided by the National Archives as they consider whether to invoke privilege to shield some records from congressional investigators. Trump is in the midst of a 30-day review period set out in public records law, due to elapse in early October.
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