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BOMBSHELL: 60 Minutes Reporting White House Switchboard Connected Call to Rioter on January 6th. [1]

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Date: 2022-09-23

This is exactly what it sounds like:

Former senior technical adviser for the January 6 Committee, Denver Riggleman, said the White House switchboard connected a phone call to a Capitol rioter on January 6, 2021. "You get a real 'a-ha' moment when you see that the White House switchboard had connected to a rioter's phone while it's happening," Riggleman told 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker. "That's a big, pretty big 'a-ha' moment." Riggleman, an ex-military intelligence officer and former Republican congressman from Virginia, oversaw a data-driven operation for the January 6 committee, pursuing phone records and other digital clues tied to the attack on the Capitol. He stopped working for the committee in April. x The White House switchboard connected a call to a rioter while the Capitol was under siege on January 6, 2021, according to former January 6 committee staffer Denver Riggleman.



“I only know one end of that call,” Riggleman said.https://t.co/U5PIrgqDV4 pic.twitter.com/cbkIFuvc6p — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 23, 2022

I will updated as warranted. Weak as a wet potato chip at the moment, but I am on it.

UPDATE: Riggleman ceased working for the committee in April, and in the interest of context, the committee has been displeased with his lack of discretion.

In an internal email obtained by POLITICO that was sent Wednesday night, shortly after the interview aired, staff director David Buckley told colleagues that Riggleman’s appearance was “in direct contravention to his employment agreement.” “I want you to know that I am deeply disappointed in his decision to discuss the Select Committee's work on television,” Buckley said in the email to the panel’s staff. The conflict centers on a rare breach for a committee that has, by most accounts, operated with little internal drama and dissension. It’s also an unwelcome distraction for the panel on the eve of its long-awaited slate of public hearings, scheduled to begin next week.

This does not make Mr. Riggleman less credible, and for his part he denies it violates his employment agreement, but he is willing to talk.

Again, this bears repeating, a call was not swtiched into the White House, Riggleman alleges a call was made to an insurrectionist from the White House.

In other Jan. 6th news, we have this tidbit here:

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Arizona ruled Thursday that the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol can see the phone records of Arizona Republican Party Chairwoman Kelli Ward and her husband. U.S. District Court Judge Diane J. Humetewa rejected the Wards' arguments in a February lawsuit that the congressional panel should be prevented from getting the phone records of the couple, who are doctors, because it would violate medical privacy laws. In January, the state GOP chair and her husband, Michael Ward, were among 14 of 84 so-called alternate electors subpoenaed by the committee because they had claimed in bogus documents that then-President Donald Trump had won the 2020 election in their states.

And a reminder to those in Arizona, about one of Kari Lake’s friends:

Why, it’s Mr. Hardees Drive-Thru himself, Mike Lindell! Gee I wonder what texts from Kari are on his phone?

-ROC

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