What About the Fierce Urgency For Truth?

The January 6th Committee rushed a hearing. They said there’d be nothing before July 4th, but then hosted a live hearing for one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson who had some very damning claims.

But the biggest claim, the one that got all the coverage, was that Trump tried to grab a steering wheel and strangle a Secret Service agent. It made all the networks and papers. It dominated coverage.

Now, through a “source,” which was actually the Secret Service public affairs office sending an on background email to reporters, we know Bobby Engel, the Secret Service agent involved in the incident, is willing to testify under oath that it did not happen.

How do we know the source is the Secret Service? Because multiple press outlet got it as not for attribution, but that the news outlets could cite it as a source. The press is playing by the rules dictated by the Secret Service in its response to the claim

So, if you pay attention, you’ll see Democrats now say that we can’t believe an anonymous source and that the agents should speak freely. But the agents cannot speak freely because they were on a presidential detail. They have to go through the Secret Service.

The Democrats all know this, as do the. reporters, but just as they won’t tell you the Secret Service is the source for debunking Cassidy Hutchinson, they won’t tell you the Secret Service agents are not allowed to come out on their own and talk.

The press and Democrats are using the rules of press engagement to obfuscate what is actually happening.

If the January 6th Committee is committed to the truth, and the committee could rush Cassidy Hutchinson’s hearing, surely they could do the same for this to set the record straight on the one bit of news that dominated press coverage of Hutchinson’s hearing.

Is the committee committed to the truth or to a narrative?

They need to decide and if they are committed to the truth, they need to treat equally the rebuttal to what now appears to be a fable.

The committee got the TV moment it wanted. But that moment will undermine their credibility and narrative if they do not seek the truth in another TV moment.