Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) speaks during a House committee hearing at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2022. | J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo
By Kyle Cheney
04/18/2022 03:44 PM EDT
Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who helped allies of Donald Trump promote false claims of election fraud, is suing to block the Jan. 6 select committee from obtaining his phone records from AT&T.
Waldron initiated the lawsuit in Collin County, Texas, courts in late February, records show, but AT&T transferred the matter to federal court on Friday. In his filings, Waldron describes himself as a “consultant” hired by Texas-based attorneys “to assist in the investigation of matters related to the Election for clients of [the] Attorneys.”
In the filings, Waldron also indicates that he has signed a nondisclosure agreement “to keep confidential all information regarding the investigation being conducted by the Attorneys for their clients concerning the Election.”
Waldron’s lawsuit suggests the select committee is facing an additional hurdle as it seeks to piece together the shadowy network of advisers that Trump relied on to promote his election fraud theories. Waldron was among a group of advisers who testified at state legislative hearings claiming he’d seen evidence of large-scale technical irregularities in voting machines.
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