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Publish: Thursday January 13, 2022 | 5:14 pm | অনলাইন সংস্করণ
GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy says he will not voluntarily cooperate with the House select committee’s probe into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“This committee is not conducting a legitimate investigation as Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi took the unprecedented action of rejecting the Republican members I named to serve on the committee. It is not serving any legislative purpose,” McCarthy said in a statement Wednesday night. “The committee’s only objective is to attempt to damage its political opponents — acting like the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee one day and the DOJ the next.”
McCarthy said in the release that his statements and private conversations have already been dispersed in the public domain and that he has “nothing else to add.”
In a letter sent earlier in the day, the committee asked him to voluntarily provide information.
It is not compelling him to provide information or sit before the committee at this time.
Chairman Bennie Thompson said in the letter that he believes McCarthy has relevant information that could speak into the facts, circumstances, and causes leading to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
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