House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) announced this week that his committee could refer members of the J6 partisan members for criminal or ethics violations. That would include Liz Cheney, who suborned perjury from Cassidy Hutchinson, who claimed that she was the one who wrote a hand written note that the committee had already heard that the note was actually written by Eric Herschmann. Cheney got Hutchinson to claim authorship of the note that she already knew that Herschmann wrote.
Loudermilk said that he has discovered that committee chairman Benny Thompson had turned the decision making to Cheney. That could possibly make her responsible for evidence that was erased. That would be obstruction of justice.
The House Republican leading the current review of security and intelligence failures during the 2021 Capitol riot put former lawmakers and staff on the now-defunct Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee on notice Wednesday that he may make referrals for criminal obstruction or House ethics violations.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga,, the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Just the News he is frustrated that videotapes of interviews, transcripts and other evidence that Congress gathered under the prior Jan. 6 inquiry run by Democrats was deleted, destroyed, moved to other federal agencies or locked behind passwords that have not been recovered, and he believes some form of accountability is warranted.
“As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Loudermilk said during an interview with Just the News, No Noise television show. “But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get. And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELLoudermilk said:
“There’s still documents that we need to get hold of. We still don’t have passwords for the encrypted documents. It’s amazing that you know, when I asked the former Chairman Bennie Thompson, ‘all I want you to do is give me the passwords.’ He said, ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about.’ Well, I think it’s coming down to he probably didn’t, because now new information we’re getting is that Liz Cheney ran that committee.”
Loudermilk said that options like criminal referrals for obstruction, congressional censure, or referral to the House Ethics Committee are all on the table.
More from Loudermilk:
“Those are options. We also have to look at what other options are there. There’s also censure-ship, ethics, obviously, but also consider there are members of that Select Committee who are no longer members of Congress. So they may fall under a different scenario. So we do have the tools of members of Congress, but also, active members of Congress have certain protections. So we’ll have to work on that. Because as you talked about earlier, we’re in uncharted territory right now. And so we’re going to have to work through this.”
Stay tuned because this could evolve into a major scandal.
