The House committee probing the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol wants its upcoming public hearings to be must-see TV, but an avalanche of leaks could just as easily make them a bust.
As with any good story, a congressional hearing of historic proportions needs its share of surprising twists to captivate viewers. Consider Watergate, when a witness doomed Richard Nixon’s presidency in 1973 by testifying that he had been taping his conversations in the White House.
Meadows filed suit against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the committee last December to block a subpoena for his testimony. In a court filing on Friday as part of that suit, Meadows’s attorneys contended that the committee is the one leaking his text messages. The filing accuses the committee of waging “a public smear campaign him through selective leaks of his private text messages to the press.
“I have no idea where these leaks are coming from,” Raskin said. “But they’re definitely whetting the public’s appetite for the hearings, because we’re going to tell a far more systematic and coherent story than the random leaks that are getting out, which obviously just contain a small portion of the information that we have.”
“I don’t get questions about this [Jan. 6] at home right now,” Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R.-N.D., said in an interview. Jan. 6 was “a terrible day, and it deserves to be treated in the appropriate context, but there are a lot of other things going on in North Dakota and across the country right now, and whatever you say about this, it’s not new. … That’s the reality that they [committee members] are going to be facing going forward.
By holding back its findings, the committee took a gamble. The approach always carried the risk that more information would filter out in advance, undercutting the committee’s efforts to narrate the attempted coup on its own terms. “There’s a distinction between Congress’ function and a prosecutor’s function,” said Richard Ben-Veniste, a prosecutor in the Watergate cover-up who was among those whom the committee consulted early on for guidance. “Leaks are anathema to prosecutors, and endemic in congressional hearings.”
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