The US Congressional commission investigating the Capitol Hill assault on January 6, 2020 has issued a subpoena for the heads of all the major web and social media big names, from Facebook to Twitter, from Reddit to Alphabet, this one last is the holding that controls Google and YouTube. Big tech is accused of failing to provide the requested information since last August.
Far right group leader arrested
Meanwhile, Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the American far-right group Oath Keepers, was arrested by the FBI as part of the investigation into the assault on Congress on January 6, 2020. The New York Times reports. The charge is of conspiracy. It would have been a key figure in organizing the uprising aimed at reversing the outcome of the presidential elections, preventing the Senate from certifying Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. It is the first time that the investigators engaged in the search for the truth on January 6 a year ago and the Department of Justice move as the charge of subversion, also contested to ten other people involved in the investigation.
Who is Stewart Rhodes
Rhodes – former US Army paratrooper, Yale graduate and former collaborator of libertarian Congressman Ron Paul – founded the Oath Keepers in Texas in March 2009, making them the most important far-right paramilitary group in the United States alongside the organization. of the Proud Boys.
On the day of the attack on the Capitol, immediately after Trump’s rally, Rhodes was certainly on Capitol Hill, communicating by phone and chatting with some members and leaders of his group who entered the corridors and rooms of Congress invaded by a crowd of rioters . There would be no evidence that he too was inside the palace, but it was certainly he who gave directions and instructions to the men in his group.
Republican McCarthy against the commission
House Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has announced that he will refuse to cooperate with the ‘House’ commission investigating the assault on the Capitol. The deputy investigators had asked for his voluntary cooperation, having been in contact with Donald Trump before, during and after the attack.