Slate: “The fight over Arizona’s Trump-inspired audit of the 2020 presidential election in Maricopa County escalated again this week, with the Republican-led County Board of Supervisors calling it an ‘adventure in never-never land’ and rejecting the Arizona Senate’s demands that more materials be handed over to Cyber Ninjas, the conspiracy-theory promoting audit firm leading the effort… on Wednesday I learned that the Cyber Ninjas are now facing even greater scrutiny from a body that has the power to move faster than the courts: the House Oversight Committee.”

“Cyber Ninjas, I’ve been told, missed last week’s deadline to produce all materials surrounding the audit, as requested by the committee in a letter last month. The Cyber Ninjas have, according to an Oversight Committee staff member involved in the inquiry, requested through counsel more time to meet the letter’s demands. But the Oversight Committee is already preparing for what happens if the firm doesn’t cooperate. ‘Our expectation is that the company will comply in full with our requests in short order,’ according to the staff member. ‘If they do not, then the Chairwoman will take steps to ensure we get the answers from them that we need.’ Indeed, Oversight Committee chairwoman Carolyn Maloney confirmed that the committee would escalate the matter if Cyber Ninjas does not comply with its records request, which would likely mean Congressional subpoenas into every aspect of the Arizona audit. “Partisan audits funded by dark money groups undermine Americans’ confidence in elections,” Maloney said in a statement Wednesday, referring to the Trump-linked 501(c)(3) entities that have poured more than $5.7 million into the audit effort.”