House committee subpoenas Arlington’s prosecutor over handling of threats against Stephen Miller
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued a subpoena Friday to the chief prosecutor in Arlington County, saying she appears to have stymied an investigation into a “left-wing agitator” who was harassing White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
Mr. Jordan said he’d been trying to get documents from Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti but she has refused, citing an ongoing investigation.
So he had to issue the subpoena compelling her to comply. He gave her an April 7 deadline.
The committee, in announcing the subpoena, said it is trying to figure out if it needs to write new legislation to combat harassment of federal officials.
“The Miller family’s safety is especially important in light of recent left-wing political violence against prominent Republicans, and the election of an attorney general in Virginia who has fantasized about murdering the children of his political opponents,” the committee said.
That latter remark was a reference to new Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who, in 2022 text messages, ruminated on shooting the then-Republican speaker of the state House and killing his children, to try to sway his political stances.
Mr. Miller, meanwhile, has moved with his family out of their Arlington County home after facing demonstrators. One in particular, Barbara Wien, distributed leaflets disclosing his home address, and is accused of making a gesture at Katie Miller, Mr. Miller’s wife, which she felt was threatening.
That ignited a back-and-forth between Ms. Dehghani-Tafti and then-Attorney General Jason Miyares, who accused the local prosecutor of trying to block state investigators from probing the incident through a search warrant for Ms. Wien’s phone.
The FBI then tried to get its own search warrant to look at the phone, but that was reportedly blocked by a federal magistrate judge.
Wien has not been charged with a crime.
Mr. Jordan first began to prod Ms. Dehghani-Tafti over her handling of the case in November and threatened a subpoena in January.
