Just Security: “A recently released House of Representatives Subcommittee on Oversight report accuses former Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney of unethical conduct and concludes that “the Federal Bureau of Investigation must also investigate Representative Cheney.” The report is the House Republican majority’s investigation of the House’s own January 6 report, created when the Democrats still controlled the chamber. President-elect Donald Trump exulted that Cheney “could be in a lot of trouble.” The allegation is that Cheney violated the “anti-contact rule” of legal ethics, by communicating with Cassidy Hutchinson without going through her lawyer. And, because of that supposed violation, the Subcommittee urges the FBI to investigate Cheney for the crime of witness tampering (p. 117). Whatever trouble Cheney may be in, it is not the legal ethics violation that the House report focuses upon. That accusation is based on a selective quotation of the anti-contact rule, leaving out the very words that prove that it does not apply. The effect is to create a public show that may well serve political purposes, but should be a complete nonstarter under any bona fide legal review…”