Confirm Countersign Witness with airSlate SignNow

Confirm countersign witness

another development in january 6 hearings the possibility of witness tampering as we just told you the committee introduced what they say are messages witnesses have received cautioning them in their testimony abiorico joins us from the national verified team for what that could mean for the proceedings now as we've reported congressional investigations are not criminal investigations so is witness tampering in a congressional investigation against the law we looked at the section of u.s code that addresses tampering with a witness victim or an informant it says it's illegal to knowingly mislead or use force threats intimidation or coercion to alter or attempt to wrongfully influence someone's testimony in an ongoing federal proceeding and that includes congressional hearings that's backed up by this congressional research paper too but remember congress can't bring charges on its own in an earlier verify interview stanford law school's david sklansky explained how it would ultimately be up to the department of justice the most congress could do is make a criminal referral to the doj congress doesn't have any ability to force the department of justice to consider a particular criminal judge charged let alone the power to require the department of justice to pursue it so we can verify yes witness tampering in a congressional investigation is against the law but whether or not charges will come that's up to the doj with your verify from capitol hill i'm abby larico