Overview
- More than 20 press-rights organizations, including CPJ, the ACLU, PEN America, and RSF, urged Congress to rescind the subpoena and called on the Justice Department not to pursue charges.
- The House Oversight Committee voted last week to subpoena Harp after he identified an officer he said was in the Delta Force chain of command tied to the reported capture of Venezuela’s leader.
- Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced the subpoena motion, accused Harp of doxxing and leaking classified information, and referred him to the Justice Department for potential investigation.
- Harp denies doxxing, says the material was obtainable via public records and FOIA and cites Duke University’s website, and he reports X locked his account and required deletions.
- Truthout reported that Republicans reached a deal with the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia, to authorize the subpoena as legal and First Amendment questions intensify around special-operations secrecy.