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Commentary: Are Jan. 6 investigators hot on the trail of 'all the president's people'?

Liz Cheney, center, vice chair of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivers remarks during a hearing by the committee in the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, in Washington, D.C. The bipartisan committee, in possibly its final hearing, has been gathering evidence for almost a year related to the Jan....

The Jan. 6 committee preceded its dramatic Trump subpoena vote last week with a montage of former administration insiders repeatedly invoking the 5th Amendment. It was characteristically clever storytelling, driving home the stark contrast between the holdouts and the many other witnesses — most of them also administration insiders — who recognized their duty, however reluctantly, to provide truthful information to Congress.

We saw a parade of cravenness: Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark provided rote "5th" responses to even the most bland questions, such as Rep.

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