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A Jan. 6 rioter made a phone call with someone who was stationed at the White House on the day of the riots.
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A Jan. 6 commission adviser said he traced a call from a rioter to the White House.
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He told CBS News that when he discovered the call, it was a “real a-ha moment.”
A former technical adviser to the Jan. 6 commission said there may have been a call to a rioter from the White House on the day of the uprising.
Dan Riggleman, a former Republican congressman and technical adviser to the Jan. 6 committee, told CBS News ’60 Minutes’ that he traced a telephone conversation between a rioter and the White House switchboard while the U.S. Capitol was under siege. He told CBS that he felt the call couldn’t have been accidental and wanted to dig deeper.
“You get a real ‘a-ha’ moment when you see the White House switchboard connected to a rioter’s phone as it happens,” Riggleman told 60 Minutes in a preview clip. “That’s a big, pretty big ‘a-ha’ moment.”
Riggleman said in the interview that he could not confirm who was on the other end of the line at the White House. White House call logs obtained by the Washington Post revealed a seven-hour gap in available data for Jan. 6, 2021.
“I only know one side of that conversation,” Riggleman said with concern. According to CBS, Riggleman retired from working with the committee in April after helping conduct an involved analysis of phone records and data related to the coordination of the uprising.
The committee will hold a public hearing on September 28, in what could be the final session of previously unreleased witness statements. After next week’s hearing, the panel will hear from Ginni Thomas, conservative activist and Supreme Court wife Clarence Thomas.
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