House January 6 panel asks lawyer for Alex Jones’s accidentally leaked texts
by Hugo Lowell and Ramon Antonio Vargas from US news | The Guardian on (#625H2)
Two years of messages were inadvertently sent by Infowars host's attorney to lawyer for Sandy Hook victim's family
The House January 6 committee has asked the attorney for a family suing Alex Jones for defamation to turn over up to two years' worth of text messages from the far-right conspiracy theorist's phone that he inadvertently received from the defense ahead of the trial.
The request from the select committee - and another from federal law enforcement - was confirmed in an Austin, Texas, courtroom on Thursday by Mark Bankston, the lawyer for the parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, which Jones has falsely claimed was a hoax.
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