On January 6, the former House Select Committee destroyed more than 100 encrypted files from its investigation, just days before Republicans assumed control of the House of Representatives. I thought the leftards on the committee said they wanted transparency and wanted to get to the truth. How do you do that when you destroy evidence?
They wiped the files. I wonder if they borrowed Hillary’s cloth.
The House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee, chaired by Republican Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, is conducting an investigation into January 6, 2021. The panel is looking at the security shortcomings that day as well as the “actions” of the previous select committee investigating the Capitol riot.
Loudermilk told Fox last week that his inquiry has entered a “new phase” with increased support from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who has pledged additional resources to the panel’s investigation.
According to sources familiar with Loudermilk’s investigation, the former select committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., was required by House rules to turn over all documents from its investigation to the new, GOP-led panel after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterm elections.
Thompson promised Loudermilk that the select committee would turn over four terabytes of archival data, but the new committee received just about two terabytes.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELLoudermilk’s committee hired a digital forensics outfit to search hard drives for material they were not given.
According to sources familiar with the investigation, the forensics team discovered 117 files that had been deleted and encrypted. According to sources, those files were erased on January 1, 2023, just days before Thompson’s staff was scheduled to transmit the data to the new committee.
It was reported that the forensics team has successfully recovered all 117 deleted and encrypted files. Loudermilk is now requesting answers and passwords to gain access to the material.
Loudermilk sent a letter to Thompson asking for access to his forensic team’s retrieved digital files.
“As you acknowledged in your July 7, 2023 letter, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Select Committee) did not archive all Committee records as required by House Rules,” Loudermilk stated in the letter. “You wrote that you sent specific transcribed interviews and depositions to the White House and Department of Homeland Security but did not archive them with the Clerk of the House.”
According to Loudermilk, Thompson also “claimed that you turned over 4-terabytes of digital files, but the hard drives archived by the Select Committee with the Clerk of the House contain less than 3- terabytes of data.”
Loudermilk stated that after doing a forensic study of the data and archived hard drives, he was able to recover “numerous digital records from hard drives archived by the Select Committee.”
“One recovered file disclosed the identity of an individual whose testimony was not archived by the Select Committee,” Loudermilk said in a statement. “Further, we found that most of the recovered files are password-protected, preventing us from determining what they contain.”
Loudermilk requested that Thompson send him “a list of passwords for all password-protected files created by the Select Committee” so that his committee could “access these files and ensure they are properly archived.”
Meanwhile, Loudermilk wrote letters to the White House general counsel and the General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, asking “unedited and unredacted transcripts” of White House and DHS testimony before the old select committee.
Loudermilk’s committee is aware that transcripts of these interviews exist but claims they were not turned over by the Thompson-led investigation.
Loudermilk urged that the White House and DHS comply with his request by January 24.
“It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation. It also appears that Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct our Subcommittee by failing to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules,” Loudermilk said.
“The American people deserve to know the full truth, and Speaker Johnson has empowered me to use all tools necessary to recover these documents to get the truth, and I will.”
We should never again take the Democrats seriously. It is all too obvious that they used this committee to once again interfere in an election where Donald Trump is in the race.
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