House Republican investigators are seeking all communications between former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and people connected to the now-defunct House select committee investigating Jan. 6, including the panel's former vice chairman, former representative. Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., chairman of the House Administration Committee's oversight subcommittee, wrote to Hutchinson on Wednesday asking for exchanges with Cheney, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and the former director of White House communications, Alyssa Farah Griffin. , the former deputy head of the White House, Anthony Ornato, and the Secret Service agent, Robert Engel, among others.
Hutchinson, who published a memoir last year, was also asked for “all communications that reference potential publishing or book deals or related compensation.”
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Rep. Liz Cheney played a key role in the Democratic-led House Committee investigation on January 6. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images | Oliver Contreras/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The former Trump administration aide was a star witness for the Jan. 6 committee, created by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. She had testified that former President Trump physically lunged at Engel, who was his driver, when the officer refused to take him to the U.S. Capitol. Trump and others linked to the story have denied his claims.
She and Cheney appear to have grown closer since then. Hutchinson praised Cheney in an MSNBC interview in September 2023: “Liz Cheney is the leader we should all aspire to be, and she is the leader we need as a country to come together and find people who will elect people like Liz Cheney.” .
Loudermilk's subcommittee, which has been investigating the Jan. 6 House investigation, accused the Democratic-led committee of “failing to properly archive its records, including up to 900 interview summaries or transcripts, more than a terabyte of data digital and more than 100 deleted or encrypted documents.”
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Cassidy Hutchinson is a former White House aide and the January 6 committee's star witness. (Reuters/Evelyn Hockstein)
“Therefore, the Subcommittee must now determine which documents were not properly filed and evaluate which documents are necessary to conduct a productive investigation. The Subcommittee has no choice but to repeat much of the work of the Select Committee to understand the findings of your investigation”. he wrote.
The Georgia Republican acknowledged that Hutchinson had provided her committee with documentation that she had also provided to the Jan. 6 panel, but said she did not present “all records, notes or documents prepared by you for interviews with the Select Committee or the Department of Justice,” which Loudermilk called for earlier this year.
She also noted that some of the information she produced, including messages between her and former Trump officials John Ratcliffe and Kash Patel, were not archived by the Jan. 6 committee.
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“As such, the Subcommittee is working to determine why the Select Committee did not archive these documents produced by or relating to you. Given the extensive interviews, extensive errata sheet, and ex parte conversations with Select Committee Vice Chair Liz Cheney, the failure to archive certain portions of your output is concerning,” Loudermilk wrote.
Fox News Digital has reached out to a lawyer for Hutchinson and a representative for Cheney for comment.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., former chairman of the Jan. 6 committee, defended his panel's handling of the documents.
“This letter was not addressed to me, but I can tell you that previous correspondence sent to me by Mr. Loudermilk has been riddled with significant factual errors,” Thompson said. “As I have said time and time again, the Select Committee filed its official records in accordance with House rules. It appears that Mr. Loudermilk is using this fishing expedition to distract from the fact that the release of the images of security cameras does not provide any information or evidence to support extreme Republican MAGA conspiracies about January 6, and only reinforces the work we did in investigating the circumstances surrounding that terrible day.”
