[ZeroHedge] Over the last two years, the Republican-controlled House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight found numerous inconsistencies and outright lies in the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, who was the Democrat-controlled January 6th Commission’s “star witness” in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021.
The Oversight Subcommittee apparently wanted to subpoena Hutchinson about her testimony. But according to a Tuesday report from Breitbart, House Speaker Mike Johnson blocked that from moving forward.
But as we’ve seen recently, he can be managed so that he does the right thing.
Breitbart noted that the Oversight Subcommittee’s recent final report on Jan. 6 mentions Hutchinson by name 268 times, but didn’t reference bringing her in for questioning.
“Johnson (R-LA) personally intervened to block the subcommittee from issuing a subpoena to Hutchinson,” Breitbart reported, citing an unnamed source. “Johnson, in a statement to Breitbart News, called that claim ‘clearly false.’”
The House Administration Subcommittee’s findings against Hutchinson are related to her June 28, 2022, testimony, when she said that she personally wrote a proposed Tweet on Jan. 6, 2021, for President Donald Trump to send advising rioters to leave the Capitol. The text of that proposed Tweet said, “ANYONE WHO ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALLY WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY SHOULD LEAVE IMMEDIATELY”—with the word ILLEGALLY scratched out.
At the time, Hutchinson testified that she wrote the note as dictated by then-Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows and Eric Herschmann, one of the President’s attorneys. However, Herschmann alleged that Hutchinson was lying, and that he was the one who wrote the note.
The House Administration Subcommittee said in October that it hired a handwriting analyst to review the note and determine who wrote it.
“After a thorough analysis, their certified handwriting analyst stated in the report that ‘the evidence supports my opinion that the handwriting that appears on the Questioned Document was written in the same hand as the exemplars [Herschmann],’” the House Administration Subcommittee said at the time.
“This new evidence provided by an independent, Certified Questioned Document Examiner, not only contradicts Ms. Hutchinson’s numerous claims that she penned the note, but also exposes the Select Committee’s willingness to accept all her testimonies without corroboration or further investigation,” Subcommittee on Oversight Chair Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., said in a press release.
The subcommittee also found that then-January 6th Commission Vice Chair Liz Cheney secretly communicated with Hutchinson, and may have pressured her to fire her attorney.
Additionally, Hutchinson was caught changing her testimony during the course of the Jan. 6 Committee hearings, as has been widely documented.
Specifically, Hutchinson testified on June 28, 2022, that Trump tried to control the steering wheel while being driven to the White House following his Jan. 6 speech. Additionally, she claimed that the former president lunged at another agent.
However, in her previous three transcribed interviews on February 23, 2022, March 7, 2022, and May 17, 2022, she did not mention that interaction, according to a later investigation from Loudermilk’s committee.
The Oversight Subcommittee has recommended that the FBI investigate Cheney for potential witness-tampering charges.
[Breitbart] Investigative journalist James O’Keefe discussed his recently released documentary film, Line in the Sand, with Breitbart News during an exclusive interview at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest.
O’Keefe, the founder of O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), sat down with Breitbart News at AmericaFest following his speech Friday, which included him bringing several brave whistleblowers on stage.
“Well, Line in the Sand took a long time to make. We filmed in Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California. We journeyed with the undocumented immigrants coming across the border, went to the [non-governmental organizations] that housed them, snuck in recorded conversations,” O’Keefe detailed.
The film, available on the Tucker Carlson Network, explores and exposes the world of the migrant industrial complex at an intimate level. Line in the Sand spotlights the illicit journey of migrants into the United States, but also U.S.-funded child detention centers and the driving force of money in the corrupt system. “We were trying to expose the system, and what we found was it’s all about money, and it’s really a documentary that shows–it doesn’t tell, it shows–and it shows by us being immersed in it. So it’s really a one-of-a-kind film,” he told Breitbart News.
The exposé has garnered stellar reviews from viewers, earning an 8.9 out of 10 rating on IMBD.
Breitbart News also spoke with O’Keefe about OMG’s trademark investigative work and the benefits of its undercover nature. These subjects speak with a level of honesty they would not dare share if they understood they were being recorded.
O’Keefe emphasized that many of the subjects reveal damning information because it eats at their conscience.
“When there’s such a wide gap between what the truth is and what you tell the people, typically, people are going to confess those things to a stranger because it eats at them, and they need someone to share it with,” he detailed.
O’Keefe also shared his message to potential whistleblowers who can prove corruption but may be too afraid to come forward, as well as his overarching message at AmericaFest.
“Contact us at–we have a nonprofit organization called Citizen Journalism Foundation, and it’s tax-deductible now,” O’Keefe said in his message to potential whistleblowers. “I used to be a Project Veritas, but now we have a C3 that will defend you. We just wrote a $100,000 check to a Disney whistle-blower today, and we’re going to be doing that once a week for 2025.”
His overarching message at AmericaFest was that the actual battle for truth is internal, not external.
“My message on stage today was that the fight is not external. It’s not with an enemy out there. It’s within ourselves,” he said. “It’s within us because telling the truth and standing up for something, even at great personal sacrifice, is a choice that every one of us has to make. Therefore, it is within us; the fight is within us. And that’s really where good and evil lies and some people do not succumb to their better angels.”
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[JustTheNews] House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., condemned the rushed Biden administration study as a "politically motivated" move meant to "hamstring" the energy goals of the incoming administration.
The future of U.S. liquified natural gas exports remains complicated as the incoming Trump administration will have to contend with a recent Department of Energy analysis now open for public comment.
The study offers a justification for the Biden administration’s indefinite pause on new LNG export sites back in January, claiming that increasing LNG exports would not only increase greenhouse gas and methane emissions but also inflict economic damage.
The results could hinder Trump’s plan to approve new LNG natural gas export terminals, part of his goal to reestablish American energy independence.
While the analysis admits that increasing LNG exports would generate revenue and create jobs across the natural gas supply chain, it simultaneously holds that the average American household would face 30% higher gas prices.
Without citing specific data, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said the projected price increase is due to "the increasing domestic price of the natural gas itself, increases in electricity prices (natural gas being a key input in many U.S. power markets), and the increased costs for consumers from the pass-through of higher costs to U.S. manufacturers."
The Texas Oil & Gas Association refutes this claim, citing federally-produced energy data. Other industry reports also refute Biden administration claims, The Center Square previously reported.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., condemned the rushed Biden administration study as a "politically motivated" move meant to "hamstring" the energy goals of the incoming administration.
"Let’s call this ’study’ what it is: A clear attempt to cement Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. This Is A Man That Does Not Seem Demented... ’s rush-to-green agenda," she said in a statement. "By trying to shut down American LNG, DOE is threatening hardworking Americans’ jobs and economic development, weakening the energy security of our allies, and strengthening our adversaries."
The partial LNG export ban garnered bipartisan opposition from politicians and states from the beginning, with Louisiana and Texas, two main exporters of LNG, suing the DOE in response.
Although a federal judge sided with the states and ruled that the ban was illegal, the DOE argued that, under the Natural Gas Act, it still needed to conduct a study on whether LNG exports are in the "public interest" before it decided whether to lift the ban.
Counting on an incoming trifecta and a fracking entrepreneur as the future leader of the DOE, Republicans have pledged to reverse the ban as soon as possible.
American Gas Association CEO Karen Harbert said the AGA will "rectify the glaring issues with this study" during the public comment period.
"The Biden Administration’s pause on American LNG exports was a mistake that resulted in uncertainty for the market, for investors, and for America’s allies around the world," Harbert added. "This report is a clear and inexplicable attempt to justify their grave policy error."
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This is a great opportunity for Trump. If we had a few more pipelines and a few more terminals the industry could probably produce at least 30% more natural gas than it does now.
and BTW, we are currently producing about 12% more natural gas than we were when Biden took office. Also the current price is about where it was when Biden took office, although there was a spike in the price in 2022.
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