Fifteen former and current staffers, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, expressed concerns that important findings unrelated to Trump will not become available to the American public…
Several committee staff members were floored earlier this month when they were told that a draft report would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committee’s “Gold Team,” excluding reams of other investigative work.
Potentially left on the cutting room floor, or relegated to an appendix, were many revelations from the “Blue Team” — the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence community’s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol. The proposed report would also cut back on much of the work of the Green Team, which looked at financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and the Purple Team, which examined militia groups and extremism.
“We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public,” said one former committee staffer. “But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.”
At first glance this appears to be Cheney still obsessing about Trump and trying everything in her power to help herself. But the alternative take is that Cheney expected that her new friends on the Jan 6th committee would be evil and unfair to Trump, but wasn't expecting that they would also be evil and unfair to other groups of conservatives who were involved.
Apparently these other Democrats on the committee were putting together nonsense that even has Cheney questioning it. Was she unaware that Democrats believe that all Republicans are white supremacists and bigots prone to violence? Maybe she thought they would (like her) reserve all their wrath for the bad orange man. Apparently some of it is so bad that Cheney believes it will discredit the entire report, including all the made up lies about Trump.
Either way, this was a match made in hell and they are fighting exactly as you would expect. As for Cheney in 2024? Good luck with that. She turned her back on everyone and everything and is now residing on the political island with a handful of other former Republicans and the former editors of the Weekly Standard. Not enough clout there.
