House Republicans call for Liz Cheney to be investigated over January 6 committee role

House Republicans on Tuesday said their one-time colleague, former Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, should face a criminal investigation for her role on the select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

A 128-page report from the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight said Cheney should be investigated for witness tampering. It accuses her of colluding with Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide who became the committee's star witness as it examined Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

The report -- released as Trump, now the president-elect, has been promising retribution against his political enemies, including Cheney -- accused Cheney of using the select committee as a tool to attack Trump. It was spearheaded by Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, the chair of the oversight subcommittee.

Cheney defended her work on the select committee in a detailed statement, and called the Republicans' report "a malicious and cowardly assault on the truth."

She said the select committee had heard from "scores of Republican witnesses, including many of the most senior officials from Trump's own White House, campaign and Administration" and produced "a highly detailed and meticulously sourced 800-page report."

Cheney said Loudermilk's interim report "intentionally disregards the truth and the Select Committee's tremendous weight of evidence, and instead fabricates lies and defamatory allegations in an attempt to cover up what Donald Trump did."

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.