{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://raskin.house.gov/2021/9/chairs-maloney-raskin-request-cyber-ninjas-ceo-s-testimony-at-oversight-committee-hearing", "Chairs Maloney, Raskin Request Cyber Ninjas CEO\u2019s Testimony at Oversight Committee Hearing", "2021-09-24", "2021", "2021-09", "Democrat", "House", "MD", "Jamie Raskin", "R000606", "raskin.house.gov", "raskin", "https://raskin.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. (September 24, 2021)\u2014Last night, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, sent a letter to Douglas Logan, Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant of Cyber Ninjas, Inc., requesting his testimony at a hearing on October 7, 2021, regarding Cyber Ninjas\u2019 role in an \u201caudit\u201d of 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, Arizona in the 2020 election.\n\n\u201cThis request follows your repeated refusal to produce documents requested by the Committee regarding this largely privately funded audit,\u201d the Chairs wrote. \u201cAs a result of your obstruction, your participation in a Committee hearing is necessary for the Committee to advance the investigation of the questionable audit your company performed and to examine whether this audit is interfering with Americans\u2019 right to vote free from partisan interference.\u201d\n\nIn April 2021, the Arizona State Senate hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct an audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, even though the company had no prior federal election audit experience. Since then, significant questions have been raised regarding the \u201cdark money\u201d organizations funding the audit, the impartiality of the company, and the mismanagement and insecure audit practices that have jeopardized the integrity of ballots and voting machines.\n\nThe Chairs wrote to Cyber Ninjas on July 14, 2021, and on August 22, 2021, requesting documents related to Cyber Ninjas\u2019 audit procedures, funding sources, communications regarding the audit with outside parties that may exert improper influence on the company, and related issues.\n\nInstead of producing the documents as requested, Cyber Ninjas continuously obstructed the Committee\u2019s investigation. On August 9, 2021, Cyber Ninjas sent a letter to the Committee raising spurious objections to all nine of the Committee\u2019s requests, and produced 336 pages of publicly available material. On August 27, 2021, Cyber Ninjas sent a second letter to the Committee reiterating its objections to producing documents and claiming inaccurately that the Committee was \u201cfar outside its proper legislative jurisdiction.\u201d\n\n\u201cAs we explained in our previous letters, this investigation is of exceeding importance to the American people,\u201d the Chairs added. \u201cConsistent with Congress\u2019s constitutional authorities, the Committee is investigating the extent to which your company\u2019s actions have undermined the integrity of federal elections and interfered with Americans\u2019 constitutional right to cast their ballot freely and to have their votes counted without partisan interference.\u201d\n\nToday\u2019s letter requests that Mr. Logan inform the Committee of whether he intends to appear at this hearing voluntarily by September 30, 2021.\n\nClick here to read the letter.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:17:01Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://raskin.house.gov/2021/9/chairs-maloney-raskin-request-cyber-ninjas-ceo-s-testimony-at-oversight-committee-hearing"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4780950732529163, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}