Secret Service agents who vowed to derail Hutchinson testimony lawyer up, refuse to testify

[Nevilledog]

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“Top Secret Service agents who tried to undermine former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the Jan. 6 committee have hired private lawyers and are refusing to cooperate with the investigation, members of the panel said over the weekend.”

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Secret Service agents who vowed to derail Hutchinson testimony lawyer up, refuse to testify: panel
Top Secret Service agents who tried to undermine former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the Jan. 6 committee have hired private lawyers and are refusing to cooperate with the...
7:31 AM · Jul 25, 2022

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Top Secret Service agents who tried to undermine former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the Jan. 6 committee have hired private lawyers and are refusing to cooperate with the investigation, members of the panel said over the weekend.

Hutchinson, who worked as a top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, testified last month that she was told by deputy chief of staff Tony Ornato that former President Donald Trump was so irate that his security detail would not take him to the Capitol with his supporters on Jan. 6 that he lunged at Secret Service agent Bobby Engel, the head of his detail. Hutchinson said Ornato, who made the unusual leap from working at the Secret Service to working for Trump before returning as a senior Secret Service official, described the incident with Engel present and he did not dispute it.

After her testimony, journalists citing anonymous sources reported that Engel and the driver of Trump's vehicle were "prepared to testify under oath" to dispute Hutchinson's account and that Ornato denied telling Hutchinson that Trump "grabbed the steering wheel or an agent."

Hutchinson's lawyer, Jody Hunt, a former aide to Trump Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said that she stood by her account and urged the Secret Service agents to testify under oath. Several witnesses, including a D.C. police officer assigned to Trump's motorcade, testified that Trump got into a "heated" confrontation with his security detail when he was told he could not go to the Capitol.

Ornato, Engel, and the unidentified driver of Trump's vehicle have since hired private counsel, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., told reporters last week.

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[OnDoutside]

1. Can't the still hired agents be ordered to testify ? And if Murray is

covering for them, can't DHS order him to order them ? If he refuses, suspend him ?

[Nevilledog]

3. They'll just take the Fifth.

[OnDoutside]

6. But they're refusing to even testify. At least if they refuse the

instruction of their superior then they at the least could be suspended pending disciplinary action. Ideally, fired.

[Maraya1969]

7. Let them take the 5th on record for all the world to see.

Bunch of big babies.

[Rebl2]

15. Far as

I am concerned they plead the fifth, they may as well say they are guilty of something.

[soldierant]

18. Alternatively, let them

be charged with contempt of Congress.

That worked so well for Bannon.

[mopinko]

8. those guys i would give immunity,

the rest of these fucks, not so much.

[Nevilledog]

9. Not Ornata..... He's big dirty.

[mopinko]

11. agreed.

[groundloop]

17. Does the 5th Amendment even apply in this instance?

They're not being prosecuted for anything, the committee isn't a "court of law", they're just being asked to provide details of something they saw or heard.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Hey agents, see USA vs Bannon

Covering for a conspiracy to overthrow the government is not a very smart move.

[BootinUp]

4. Liars. Get them out of there.nt

[crazylikafox]

5. Who's paying the lawyers?

[JohnSJ]

10. Whoever those SS agents are, they need to look for new jobs. They are a security risk

[Rebl2]

16. Yep

[moniss]

12. There should be immediate

subpoenas for all SS communications of any kind from just before her testimony to the present day. Remember that she was the one people tried to intimidate before her testimony. A relevant question would be what role any of the SS played in "arranging" for that to happen. These people appear to be very dirty/corrupt and remind me of the Iran/Contra clowns like North and Poindexter.

[uponit7771]

13. K&R, ... InOtherWords: " ... we [SS Agents] lied our asses off ... some more "

[UTUSN]

14. 'private lawyers" - flying monkeys paid by Drumpf zombies?