Updated Feb 16, 2022 - Politics & Policy

Jan. 6 panel seeks the phone records of Alex Jones' security guard

Rebecca Falconer

Infowars founder Alex Jones listens to a supporter at the Texas State Capital building on April 18, 2020 in Austin, Texas. — Infowars founder Alex Jones at a 2020 rally in Austin, Texas. Photo: Sergio Flores/Getty Images

The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot has subpoenaed the phone records of a security guard who works for Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, according to a court filing late Tuesday.

Why it matters: The action indicates that the panel has a "deepening interest" in who the Infowars founder was in contact with about former President Trump's rally before the insurrection, per Politico, which first reported the news.

Timothy Enlow, who's worked as a security operations manager for Jones' company Free Speech Systems since December 2018, was with the broadcaster at Trump's rally and marched with him to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Jones said he met with the panel last month, repeatedly pleading the Fifth, and Infowars co-host Owen Shroyer has been charged over the Capitol attack.

Driving the news: Jones is seeking to add Enlow to his current lawsuit against the panel.

His attorney claims in the filing that AT&T alerted Enlow about the subpoena on Feb. 9, calling the panel's action "a back door to obtain Jones' communications in the face of pending litigation."
Representatives for the Jan. 6 panel did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment.

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Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.

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