调查1月6日国会大厦袭击事件的众议院特别委员会正在寻找一些共和党议员、前总统唐纳德·特朗普及其家人的电子邮件和电话记录，因为该委员会正在调查骚乱以及围绕特朗普政府扭转总统选举结果的努力。
该小组周一向35家电子邮件、电信和社交媒体公司发出保存请求，要求它们保存与1月6日袭击、白宫外的“停止偷窃”集会以及围绕国会山选举结果挑战的计划有关的记录。
获奖者包括威瑞森、AT&T、推特、谷歌和雅虎，以及社交媒体和网络平台，如推特、Reddit、Parler和Gab。该小组还向运营加密电子邮件和消息平台的质子技术和信号公司发送了信函。
“正如汤普森主席上周预告的那样，特别委员会今天致函35家私营部门实体，包括电信、电子邮件和社交媒体公司，指示它们保存可能与特别委员会调查有关的记录。特设委员会目前正在收集事实，没有指控任何个人的不当行为，”委员会发言人在一份声明中说。
据委员会消息人士称，虽然这些要求没有点名任何议员或特朗普家族成员，但委员会正在将调查重点放在与“停止偷窃”努力密切相关的共和党人身上，他们在1月6日上午的集会上发表了讲话。
委员会还对在白宫西翼工作的伊万卡·特朗普、小唐纳德·特朗普和埃里克·特朗普的记录感兴趣，他们为他们父亲的连任竞选工作。
本尼·汤普森主席，小姐。，近日对记者表示，该委员会正在重点调查“数百名”与他们有关的人，包括国会议员、特朗普政府和总统家庭成员。
这一请求——最终可能会被传唤以迫使出示这些记录——是在上周向八个政府机构发出类似信函以保存委员会调查所关注的特朗普时代的记录之后提出的。
周五，该委员会向15家互联网和社交媒体公司发出请求，要求获得与2020年大选的错误信息和推翻总统竞选的努力有关的记录和数据。
共和党人对民主党人可能会寻求共和党同僚的记录感到愤怒。共和党领导层成员、加州众议院议长南希·佩洛西(Nancy Pelosi)被阻止在特别委员会任职的印第安纳州共和党众议员吉姆·班克斯(Jim Banks)指责民主党人将国会对共和党人的监督“武器化”。
“他们对美国民主造成了不可逆转的损害，他们必须面对后果，”他在一份声明中说。
Jan. 6 committee asks companies to preserve phone records from GOP lawmakers, Trump aides
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is seeking email and phone records of some GOP lawmakers, former President Donald Trump and members of his family as it works to investigate the riot and efforts around Trump administration to reverse the presidential election results.
The panel on Monday sent preservation requests to 35 email, telecommunications and social media companies, asking they save records related to the Jan. 6 attack, the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally outside the White House, and planning around challenges to the election results on Capitol Hill.
The recipients include Verizon, AT&T, Twitter, Google and Yahoo, along with social media and networking platforms such as Twitter, Reddit, Parler and Gab. The panel also sent letters to Proton Technologies and Signal, which operate encrypted email and messaging platforms.
“As Chairman Thompson previewed last week, the Select Committee today sent letters to 35 private-sector entities, including telecommunications, email, and social media companies, instructing them to preserve records which may be relevant to the Select Committee’s investigation.The Select Committee is at this point gathering facts, not alleging wrongdoing by any individual," a committee spokesman said in a statement.
While the requests do not single out any lawmakers or members of the Trump family by name, the committee is focusing its inquiry on Republicans closely associated with the ‘Stop the Steal’ effort and who spoke at the rally on the morning of Jan. 6, according to a committee source.
The committee is also interested in the records of Ivanka Trump, who worked in the West Wing, and Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who worked on their father’s reelection bid.
Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., recently told reporters that the committee is focusing on “several hundred” people of interest to their investigation, including members of Congress, the Trump administration and members of the president’s family.
The request – which could eventually be followed by subpoenas to compel production of the records – follows similar letters sent to eight government agencies last week to preserve Trump-era records of interest to the panel’s inquiry.
On Friday, the committee sent requests to 15 internet and social media companies, for records and data relating to misinformation about the 2020 election and efforts to overturn the presidential race.
Republicans bristled at the possibility of Democrats seeking the records of their GOP colleagues. Rep. Jim Banks, R-Indiana, a member of GOP leadership who House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., blocked from serving on the select committee, accused Democrats of "weaponizing" congressional oversight against Republicans.
"They have done irreversible damage to American democracy, and they must face consequences," he said in a statement.
