"The Interior Department is being asked to turn over documents to Congress related to the Capitol insurrection.

Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, asked for the materials today as part of the panel’s first, massive records request pertaining to federal agencies, government staff, elected officials and private citizens with some connection to the violent events that transpired that the day.

In a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Thompson provided a Sept. 9 deadline for producing “documents and communications received, prepared, or sent between December 1, 2020, and January 20, 2021, relating to the counting of the electoral college vote on January 6, 2021, the potential for demonstration, violence, or attacks in the National Capital Region on or around January 6, 2021, and the events or aftermath of January 6, 2021.”

Specifically, Thompson is seeking communications relating to permits or permit applications for events in Washington regarding the 2020 presidential election, that would have been issued by the National Park Service between Nov. 3, 2020, and Jan. 20, 2021."

Emma Dumain reports for E&E News August 25, 2021. [2]