Liz Cheneys secret discussions with Jan. 6 witness ABSOLUTELY merit investigation

For the record, the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight call for the Justice Department to investigate evident witness-tampering by ex-Rep.Liz Cheney is not “revenge” — it’s basic “good government.”The committee’s report cites evidence that Cheney, as vice chairman of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the Jan.

6, 2021 Capitol riot, secretly reached out to a star witness, Cassidy Hutchinson, and proceeded to coach her testimony without her lawyer’s knowledge.Now, maybe there’s some other reason Cheney was messaging with Hutchinson via the encrypted Signal app before the former Trump White House aide testified.And maybe there are reasons Hutchinson’s testimony conflicted with other witnesses’ — particularly her gossip about Trump supposedly lunging for the wheel of a car after Secret Service agents refused to drive his motorcade to the Capitol on the fateful day.But secret communications with a witness are far outside the rules for any investigator, including members of Congress.So the committee was plainly right to flag the matter for Justice Department investigation — though the Biden department sure won’t touch it and even the Trump one may have bigger fish to fry.Congressional hearings shouldn’t be purely partisan attacks on political enemies, but that’s what Pelosi’s perverse Jan.6 “probe” amounted to — complete with Hollywood advice on staging the show.And apparent witness tampering in advance of that show only adds an outright criminal element to the perversion of House proceedings.It seems Cheney, like everyone else ranting about “protecting democracy” in the last election, doesn’t have a clue what that word means....