Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) is not an attorney.
But you might have thought that he was with the way he baited Jan. 6 Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and then reeled in the hook. He had some fascinating questions, and when you see where he’s going with it, it’s a pretty epic video. The questions he asks are pretty important. He upsets the apple chart as to the facts on the deleted Secret Service texts from Jan. 6 and exposes the Committee’s failures on the pipe bomb question.
Massie said the texts were deleted after the preservation requests from Congress and so he considered it a violation of the Federal Records Act. He pointed to a statement that he entered into the record where Thompson and Liz Cheney said such a thing would violate the Act. Thompson agreed he thought it would be a violation.
That’s when Massie dropped the hammer on Thompson. He said…
