Senators probing Trump shooting to release report LATER due to Stalling by Government
A U.S. Senate committee investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler plans to issue an interim report by the end of the month, the panel's chair said Tuesday.
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, who leads the Senate Homeland Security Committee, said there were still plenty of questions to be answered and people to interview, but the report would reveal what the committee has uncovered so far. He said the report would be issued when the Senate recessed for the election. The Senate is supposed to leave Washington on Sept. 27.
"We are going to put out what we've learned so far, but we need more information," Mr. Peters, D-Mich. said at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "Part of what we found so far leads to further questions. It is those questions we need answers to, and those questions are going to require additional interviews, additional documents for us to get the answers to our questions."
But some of that information has proven difficult to obtain, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., chair of the panel's investigations subcommittee, told reporters at the Capitol later on Tuesday. Mr. Blumenthal said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was "stonewalling" the investigation, which he called "immensely frustrating and outrageous."
Mr. Blumenthal raised the possibility that the Senate would subpoena the information if the DHS was not forthcoming.
"We've received a communication that is an insult to our intelligence as well as our proper role as an oversight body," Mr. Blumenthal said. "They've just completely failed to be forthcoming."
DHS said in a statement that the agency, including the Secret Service, has given the Senate several briefings, around 2,500 pages of documents, and more than 50 hours of transcribed interviews, while also cooperating with the House task force, the White House's review, the agency's inspector general, and the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.