Analysis: House GOP leaders lack insight into Jan. 6 committee’s inner workings
shut down that line of debate on Wednesday with some information these Republicans did not seem to know. “We have in fact interviewed precisely the people they set up as a test for the validity of our investigation,” Raskin said.
Without knowing precisely what the committee is doing and who it is talking to, Republicans have struggled to prepare lines of defense for former president Donald Trump. Even more important to their own personal interests, dozens of GOP lawmakers are left in the dark about what evidence the committee has collected involving their own contacts with Trump and his senior advisers in the run up to, and during, the attack on the Capitol.
“I think what you are really doing is you are allowing the majority to silence entire constituencies,” Armstrong said.Some members of the committee think McCarthy got a short-term morale boost with his decision but lost out in the long run. “He made a huge mistake pulling everybody off, from a strategy perspective,” Kinzinger said.
“In a democracy the opposition is more important than the management, because every government has people in charge," said Rep. Darrell Issa ."Only democracies have real opportunity for the opposition to be heard.”Issa first rose to fame as the loyal opposition on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, the ranking Republican in the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Cummings and his staff had similar access during the Benghazi probe and gave the Maryland Democrat a chance to forcefully challenge Republican attacks during public hearings.Last summer McCarthy weighed the same considerations as Pelosi did over the Benghazi panel. He decided to submit the original five names, trying to compile a cross section of his conference.
In hindsight, McCarthy’s biggest mistake might have been backing away from creating an independent commission to investigate the Capitol attack along the lines of the 9/11 commission.with five appointments each coming from Democratic and Republican congressional leaders. Subpoenas would have required bipartisan support, and the panel would have had until Dec. 31, 2021, to finish its work.
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