WASHINGTON — A House Republican-led panel on Tuesday called for a federal criminal investigation of former Rep. Liz Cheney for possible “criminal witness tampering” with
a star witness while serving as vice chairman of the since-disbanded House select committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot.
Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Cassidy Hutchinson, a first-term White House aide to then-President Donald Trump, communicated
via the encrypted Signal app before her explosive and later largely debunked public testimony in June 2022, according to
documents previously released by House Republicans.
Citing those communications, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight on Tuesday issued
an interim report calling for the Justice Department to investigate Cheney as Trump prepares to retake the White House.
“Evidence uncovered by the Subcommittee revealed that former Congresswoman Liz Cheney tampered with at least one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, by secretly communicating with Hutchinson without Hutchinson’s attorney’s knowledge,” the report from chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) says.
“This secret communication with a witness is improper and likely violates 18 U.S.C. 1512. Such action is outside the due functioning of the legislative process and therefore not protected by the Speech and Debate clause.”
Records made public in October by the same committee revealed that Cheney and Hutchinson used the Signal app to swap messages to arrange calls over the app, which is used by Washington journalists and politicians for its end-to-end encryption, which inhibits interception by authorities.
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