Several committee staff members were floored earlier this month when they were told that a draft report would focus almost entirely on Trump and the work of the committee s Gold Team, excluding reams of other investigative work.
Jan. 6 panel staff angry at Cheney for focusing too much of report on Trump – The Washington Post
Potentially left on the cutting room floor, or relegated to an appendix, were many revelations from the Blue Team the group that dug into the law enforcement and intelligence community s failure to assess the looming threat and prepare for the well-forecast attack on the Capitol. The proposed report would also cut back on much of the work of the Green Team, which looked at financing for the Jan. 6 attack, and the Purple Team, which examined militia groups and extremism.
We all came from prestigious jobs, dropping what we were doing because we were told this would be an important fact-finding investigation that would inform the public, said one former committee staffer. But when [the committee] became a Cheney 2024 campaign, many of us became discouraged.
It was all about politics all along!