According to a new report from Politico, a whistleblower says the January 6. Committee and the Capitol Police may be in cahoots.
"They're not going to do a real review of the Capitol Police," the whistleblower told Politico. "I think it's a chilling effect that they're in bed with the general counsel."
Politico says it confirmed that the whistleblower was a part of the Capitol Police and was present on Jan. 6., but has since left the force. The whistleblower told Politico that he became alarmed that the department may be intimidating it's own staffers to not divulge information to the committee's investigators.
The whistleblower was interviewed by a part of the Jan. 6 Committee probing law enforcement, called the "Blue Team." He was scheduled to be interviewed by the committee and was alarmed when one of the investigators asked if a lawyer from the police department could be present, suggesting the department learned he was going to be interviewed.
A lawyer never attended his interview, but the whistleblower said police department lawyers are scheduled to be at future interviews with other Capitol Police personnel. The whistleblower told Politico "It's obvious that they [USCP] wants to intimidate people and no one's going to say anything bad about the department or anything that went on with the lawyers sitting in the room."
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