The Department of Justice (DOJ) will be held responsible if it is found to have harmed the public release of the Investigator General’s report on the DOJ’s actions on January 6. This was stated in a letter led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) on Wednesday.
Ten members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee signed Massie’s letter. It comes after the DOJ’s Inspector General said that the FBI had confidential human sources on the Capitol Grounds that day and that the DOJ may be taking too long to share his final report on the subject.
A key piece of proof that contradicts the official story of what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, is the presence of federal assets, especially confidential human sources (CHSs). Trump is being charged with election interference in federal court by special counsel Jack Smith, who was only a few blocks away from the Capitol. Part of the charge comes from claims that Trump planned what happened at the Capitol.
Garland “told the panel that Inspector General Horowitz is ‘independent’ and ‘the determination of the release of his reports is up to the Inspector General,'” according to Massie’s letter. Garland gave this evidence on June 4, 2024.
The letter says, “We write to remind you of your promise.”
Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the DOJ, told the House Weaponization Committee on September 25 that the DOJ is holding up the draft of the report.
Listening sessions by Speaker Pelosi’s House Select Committee on January 6 put an end to the probe. Horowitz didn’t start looking into it again until 2023.
The DOJ has kept up the pace of charges leading up to the 2024 election. Several new prosecutions have happened in the last few months, more than three and a half years after January 6.
Horowitz stated at the meeting on September 25 that his draft report would include CHSs. As Massie pressed Horowitz for proof of the amount of CHSs working on January 6, Horowitz agreed.
When asked for the exact number, he said, “I’m not in a position to say that, both because it’s in draft form and we haven’t gone through the classification review, so I need to be careful.”
Horowitz said he would like to share his report soon, but he doesn’t think it will happen before the election. This shows that he couldn’t change when the classification review happened.
Massie thinks that politics plays a role.
At the meeting, Horowitz said that the number would not be known until after the election. Massie wrote on X about this. “Biden-Harris doesn’t want people to know what part the federal government played in 1/6. Why?”
