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May 25, 2018ST. LOUIS, Mo. |  By: AP

Missouri Gov. Greitens' attorney wants to name chairman of House committee as a witness

An attorney for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is suggesting that the chairman of a House investigatory committee should be a witness in his own investigation.
 
The suggestion Thursday by Greitens' campaign attorney Catherine Hanaway is similar to the tactic that Greitens' lawyers used successfully in his now-dismissed criminal invasion-of-privacy case.
 
Hanaway says that Rep. Jay Barnes is now a "material witness'' in the House investigation into whether Greitens should be impeached. That's partly because Barnes said he received an audio recording in which a woman told her husband of a sexual encounter with Greitens in 2015.
 
Earlier this month, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner dropped a felony charge against Greitens after a judge approved a request from Greitens' lawyers to question her as a potential witness in the case.