Former acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller claimed the January 6th committee threatened to “make his life hell” if he continued publicly stating that President Trump had authorized deploying the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6th, contradicting the committee’s narrative.
Miller said committee members warned him of further hostile questioning if he repeated this account.
“The two of us were on [the Fox News show] and the next day my lawyer got a call from the Jan. 6 staff director — I forgot exactly who it was — but basically saying, very legalistic: ‘Well, if your client has additional information he wants to share, we’d be happy to have him re-interviewed,”’ Miller said.
His statements echoed other witnesses who said the partisan committee aimed to discredit opposing views rather than investigate facts.
“That piece Kash and I did, it hit a nerve,” Miller said. “It was like, ‘[expletive], that sure got some attention.’”
The committee reportedly pressured and intimidated witnesses, treating testimony contradicting its preconceived conclusions as a “threat.”
“It was more that latent threat of: ‘If you want to keep going on TV, we’re gonna drag you in here again for additional hours of hearing testimony.’ So that was the nature of that whole thing,” he said.
“It was the latent threat of the government continuing to intrude into my life,” he said.
Now, it’s worth noting that his statements on “Hannity” seemed to be at odds with the sworn testimony he gave before the committee, according to the U.K.’s Independent; when asked about deployment of the National Guard, he said, “I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature.”
“People thought they were friendly to law enforcement and that they loved their country,” D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said. “People didn’t think that these white nationalists would overthrow the Capitol building.”
While the committee raised concerns about January 6th, its tactics cast doubt on the objectivity and reliability of its findings.
“I didn’t talk about it with anybody else because of the fear or the concern,” Miller said.
“I wasn’t communicating with anybody, because I knew any interactions I had on it would result in me having to … acknowledge that I’d been in communications with other people. And then that just sort of opens up a whole can of worms with the investigators that I just didn’t want to do.”
“It was much easier just to not be involved with anybody or talk to anybody about this stuff because it was going to cause conflict and difficulties with the investigating team,” he said. “So I didn’t talk to other people, quite simply.”
“I’m sure that Cheney was looking at the optics and was like, ‘these people are a serious threat to my narrative’ that she tried to establish,” Miller said.
“Now, you know, they’ll say, ‘No, that wasn’t it at all. We just wanted to make sure that we understood all the nuance and complexity.’ But I definitely interpreted it as … don’t fight city hall type thing.”
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