House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) received an ethics complaint from a watchdog group which accused the speaker of acting in a politically motivated way when he released Jan. 6 footage to Tucker Carlson.
Members of the group Public Citizen, a left-wing nonprofit consumer advocacy group, sent a letter (pdf) on Tuesday to the Office of Congressional Ethics and requested “an investigation into the recent exclusive release” to “a single news outlet of confidential records obtained by the House Select Committee.” The group described the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol as an “attack” and later, an “insurrection.”
