If it seems that things are proceeding slowly when it comes to the House select committee on Jan. 6, that’s because they are. It took until June for the committee to be formed. Document requests went out in August. The first subpoenas were issued a month later. Steve Bannon was held in contempt of Congress a month after that.  Now it’s November. No one has been indicted. None of the four subpoenaed in September have testified. Sen. Liz Cheney may have revealed that the committee has now interviewed over 150 people, but without knowing who those people are or what they’ve said, it’s hard to estimate how much progress the committee may have made toward holding those responsible for the January insurgency responsible. From the outside, the answer certainly looks like “not much.”   One of the most frustrating aspects has to be that the committee is still fighting to see the documents it requested back in August. Donald Trump immediately tossed a claim of executive privilege over two large tranches of those documents. Almost as quickly, President Joe Biden removed that barrier, which might make it seem that the documents were then hand-carried to the select committee. Except they weren’t. Because Trump took his executive privilege claims to court, claiming that his former role still carries the right to cover up.  What Trump is trying to hide includes: the White House visitor logs for the week of Jan. 6, call logs to Trump and Mike Pence on that day, draft public statements created during the assault on the Capitol, and handwritten memos passed around the White House as Trump responded to the scenes of his supporters storming Congress. All of which sound pretty important to the committee’s investigation. On Thursday, it seemed that Trump had a bad day in court, but that’s a bit deceptive. Any day this matter is still in court is a good day for Trump. Read more