Rep. Jim Jordan asks whether Southern Poverty Law Center paid Jan. 6 confidential sources

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said the House judiciary committee issued a new subpoena as part of an investigation into the use of confidential sources around the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, raising questions about whether any were paid by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“Were any of the guys they were paying — was the Biden Justice Department paying these same guys? Confidential human sources. We know 26 confidential human sources were at the Capitol on Jan. 6,” Jordan said to Fox News’s America’s Newsroom co-host Bill Hemmer on Thursday. 

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