Report: Jan 6 Committee Collected 30M Phone Records of Conservative Contacts

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Above: U.S. House Jan. 6 Committee members on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 19, 2021. Image copyright: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images

The Spin

Republican narrative

The Jan. 6 Committee conducted an unprecedented surveillance operation, collecting not just evidence of alleged rioting, but 30 million phone records targeting Trump supporters and Republican lawmakers without warrants. This massive dragnet represents a serious real civil rights violation, and exposes the committee for what it truly was: a government operation to take down conservatives.

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Democratic narrative

Trump and the Republicans have successfully rewritten the Jan. 6 narrative through relentless propaganda and misdirection. According to them, the real scandal isn't Trump's documented attempt to overthrow the election and thus the country, but federal investigators examining phone records of lawmakers who may have been complicit in the insurrection.

The New York Times

Establishment-critical narrative

While it's nice that some lawmakers are calling out government surveillance, they should have the same outrage over the fact that the NSA has been spying on all Americans for years, and continues to do so. The NSA's mass surveillance — tracking phone records, hacking devices and tapping internet lines — invades everyone's privacy with Congress's blessing, yet politicians cry foul only when it impacts them or their party.

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