Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen and ethics advisers who served in the White House under President Barack Obama and George W. Bush submitted a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics on Tuesday urging an investigation of Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s exclusive release of Jan. 6 footage to Fox News.
McCarthy made 44,000 hours of the footage available to Fox host Tucker Carlson that had been previously obtained by the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol. The complaint argues that McCarthy’s actions undermined the “safety and integrity of Congress” and asks the OCE to investigate whether McCarthy violated congressional rules.
Norman Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment of President Donald Trump and was a high-ranking ethics official in the Obama White House, and Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer under Bush from 2005 to 2007, co-signed the complaint.
