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Jury selected for contempt trial of Trump aide Steve Bannon

Washington (AFP) - A jury was selected Monday for the trial of former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena to testify before lawmakers investigating the attack on the US Capitol.

AFP

Report: Conservative Newsmax peddles Jan. 6 misinformation

A new research report says the conservative TV channel Newsmax is presenting viewers with an “alternate universe” of how the deadly siege at the U.S. Capitol unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK

January 6 committee to receive deleted Secret Service texts, Democrat says

Agency’s account about how text messages from day before and day of the Capitol attack were erased has shifted several times

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Jury selection begins in trial of Trump aide Bannon

Washington (AFP) - Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena to testify before lawmakers investigating the attack on the US Capitol.

AFP

Editorial: The truth about the lie: Trump, the election and Jan. 6

It was all rigged, Donald Trump says — insisting that an election he lost fair and square was stolen in the largest conspiracy in human history, nevermind no evidence. But something was indeed rigged on Election Day and thereafter: The reaction of Trump himself. The then-president had a totally precooked…

Tribune News Service

Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt of Congress trial to begin

Former Trump adviser refused to comply with Capitol attack subpoena for documents and testimony related to January 6

The Guardian - US

Jan 6 panel teases Thursday’s primetime hearing with ‘minute-by-minute’ account of Trump’s actions

Republican Adam Kinzinger told CBS that the revelations would ‘open people’s eyes in a big way’ to how Mr Trump felt personally about the hordes of rioters descending upon the Capitol

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Jan. 6 panel to receive Secret Service texts after data loss

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol assault expects to receive text messages it has subpoenaed from the Secret Service by Tuesday, panel member Zoe Lofgren said.

Tribune News Service

Federal prosecutors seek 15-year sentence, the longest thus far, for Capitol rioter

Guy Reffitt was the first Jan. 6 defendant to go to trial and was found guilty on all charges earlier this year.

Axios

House panel subpoenas Secret Service records in Jan. 6 probe

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the assault on the US Capitol has subpoenaed records from the Secret Service after being told by a government inspector general that the agency wasn’t cooperating with the inquiry.

Tribune News Service

Police officer in Trump’s Jan 6 motorcade corroborates Secret Service confrontation

The House select committee has also issued a subpoena to the Secret Service requesting records

The Independent UK

What the subpoena for the Secret Service's erased texts means for the Jan. 6 probe

The House committee subpoenaed the Secret Service for text messages agents reportedly deleted, as the panel probes President Donald Trump's actions at the time of the deadly Capitol attack.

WEKU

Jan 6 Capitol riot committee subpoenas Secret Service over missng texts

Washington (AFP) - The US House committee investigating the January 6 assault on the Capitol said late Friday night it had subpoenaed the Secret Service over questions surrounding missing text messages from the days surrounding the riot last year.

AFP

House January 6 panel subpoenas Secret Service for allegedly deleted text messages

The subpoena is the first to an executive branch agency in investigation focused on possible erasure of communications

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Secret Service isn’t cooperating with Jan. 6 probe, panel told

WASHINGTON — The House panel investigating the assault on the U.S. Capitol met Friday with representatives of the Homeland Security Department’s watchdog who said the Secret Service isn’t cooperating with its investigation.

The Independent UK

Prosecutors seek 15-year sentence for armed Capitol rioter

Federal prosecutors are seeking a 15-year prison sentence for a Texas man who was convicted of storming the U.S. Capitol with a holstered handgun

The Guardian - US

January 6 panel examines whether erased Secret Service texts can be revived

Sources say committee investigating whether watchdog can use forensic tools to reconstruct messages from 5 and 6 January

The Independent UK

Watchdog briefs Jan. 6 panel on erased Secret Service texts

The watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security has briefed all nine members of the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack about a report that found the Secret Service deleted texts from around Jan. 6

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The Independent UK

When is the next Jan 6 committee hearing?

‘The public needs to know what to think. We just have to show clearly what happened,’ House committee chairman Bennie Thompson says

The Independent UK

Jan 6 committee schedules next prime time hearing for 21 July

Hearing expected to outline 187 minutes betwen end of Trump’s speech and first public response to the attack on Congress

Tribune News Service

DC police confirm accounts of Trump fight in limo on Jan. 6, report says

A Washington, D.C., police officer has reportedly confirmed reports that former President Donald Trump got into a physical altercation with Secret Service agents on Jan. 6 as he sought to go to the Capitol to lead the violent insurrection by his supporters.

The Independent UK

Venue cancels comedy gig by right-wing provocateur who sexually harassed AOC on Capitol steps

The Democrat has since expressed she fears for her safety working in Congress

Tribune News Service

Melinda Henneberger: If Donald Trump walks while only Jan. 6 bit players are punished, our democracy is doomed

Jan. 6 rioter Stephen Ayres isn’t nearly as deserving of our sympathy as the U.S. Capitol police officers to whom he apologized this week.

AFP

US Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan 6 insurrection: watchdog

Washington (AFP) - The US Secret Service, the law enforcement agency that protects the president, deleted agents' text messages sent during the January 6 Capitol riot, a government watchdog said in a letter published Thursday.

WEKU

Secret Service erased texts from two-day period spanning Jan. 6 attack, watchdog says

A Secret Service spokesman disputes the Department of Homeland Security inspector general's account, saying its request came after a mobile phone migration had started, but no messages were lost.

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