Quick Glance: Retailers Urged to Stop Orders for Mafia-Themed Scotch Whisky
- The Portman Group, the UK's alcohol sector regulator, is calling on retailers to halt orders of Polish company Bartex Bartol's "Cosa Nostra" product.
- The packaging was deemed likely to cause offense.
- The Portman Group found that the product had a direct association with violent, aggressive, dangerous, and illegal behavior, resulting in serious and widespread offense.
- Nicola Williams, chairwoman of the group's independent complaints panel, stated: "Given the increasing gun crime in the UK, it is highly irresponsible for an alcohol producer to glamorize firearms and market a product in this manner."
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Quick Glance: A panel on January 6 subpoenas the Secret Service for deleted text communications.
- On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security's watchdog accused the Secret Service of destroying text conversations after it requested them.
- According to the letter, the Secret Service informed the House Select Committee that text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 had been wiped as part of a "device-replacement program."
- "The agency said the "pre-planned, three-month system move" resulted in some data loss," according to the letter.
- In response to the letter, Secret Service spokesperson Anthony Guglielmi said his agency took "strong issue with these categorically false claims."
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Quick Glance: DOJ Requests Interview Transcripts From a Committee on January 6th
- According to Politico, Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) stated on Tuesday that the committee will not pass over its "work product" to anyone, even the DOJ.
- The committee subpoenaed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who said Trump informed him he was largely responsible for the violence, as well as four other Republican legislators who reportedly participated in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, on Thursday.
- However, Thompson stated that the committee does not intend to call Trump or former Vice President Mike Pence as witnesses, according to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney.
- "January 6 Committee Reportedly Doesn't Plan To Call Trump Or Pence As Witnesses" (Forbes).
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Quick Glance: Kevin McCarthy and Other Republicans Subpoenaed by Committee on January 6th
- McCarthy of California, for example, "was in communication with Trump before, during, and after the attack on Jan. 6th," according to the committee. "Mr."
- The House committee investigating the Capitol incident on January 6, 2021, has issued subpoenas to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican legislators.
- Members of the committee have previously stated that no losing president has ever attempted to reverse an election by toppling American democracy.
- Four Trump allies have already been sent to the DOJ by the House: Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino, Mark Meadows, and Steve Bannon.