House Panel Investigating Capitol Attack Subpoenas Proud Boys and Oath Keepers - The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Capitol attack issued subpoenas on Tuesday to three militia or paramilitary groups, including the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, that investigators believe have information about the deadly siege on Jan.

The subpoenas were issued to the Proud Boys International, L.L.C., and its chairman, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio; the Oath Keepers and its president, Elmer Stewart Rhodes; and the 1st Amendment Praetorian and its chairman, Robert Patrick Lewis6

“The select committee is seeking information from individuals and organizations reportedly involved with planning the attack, with the violent mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan.

6 or with efforts to overturn the results of the election,” Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, said in a statement.

The panel said members of Proud Boys International called for violence before Jan.

People associated with the Oath Keepers were similarly involved in planning and participating in the Capitol riot, the committee said, including 18 members who were indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly planning a coordinated attack to storm the building.

He was also allegedly in contact with several of the indicted Oath Keepers members before, during and after the attack on Jan.

Rhodes appeared on the show of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, whom the committee subpoenaed on Monday, and claimed that Democrats were stealing the election and that the Oath Keepers would protect President Donald J.

Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act and warned that the Oath Keepers would mount a “much more bloody war” if he did not, the committee said.

Rhodes, also claimed to be involved with “war-gaming” to continue efforts to overturn the election results even after the mob violence, the committee said.

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Trump’s allies in the Capitol attack, but the militia groups and rioters associated with them.

Members of the committee have also said that they are considering recommending contempt charges for two other potential witnesses: Mark Meadows, Mr.

The former president is also fighting in federal court against the committee’s request for hundreds of White House documents about his actions before and during the Capitol riot.

While no one from the 1st Amendment Praetorian is currently facing criminal charges in connection with the attack, prosecutors focused on the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers soon after Jan.

Several members of the Proud Boys — far-right nationalists who style themselves as “Western chauvinists” — have been charged with taking part in the assault.

Tarrio has not been charged in the Capitol attack; he was ordered to leave Washington after being arrested on Jan.