Justice Department accuses Jan. 6 committee of refusing to share transcripts.

 

The Justice Department accused the House committee investigating Jan. 6 of hampering the federal criminal investigation into the attack by refusing to share interview transcripts with prosecutors, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The person, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said the Justice Department sent a two-page letter to the committee on Wednesday that renewed its request for transcripts of the committee’s more than 1,000 witness interviews related to actions undertaken by former President Donald J. Trump and his allies to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election results as well as the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob.