Posted on 01/22/2024 8:57:42 AM PST by george76
"It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation," Loudermilk said...
Forensic investigators hired by a Republican-led committee recovered more than 100 encrypted files that the Democratic-led House Jan. 6 Select Committee deleted days before the GOP took over the House majority, according to a new report released Monday.
House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chair Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., sent a letter to former Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., demanding he provide answers and passwords for the data, which was deleted against House rules, according to Fox News Digital.
The Oversight Subcommittee, which is investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the former select committee, should have received four terabytes of archived data from the select committee after Republicans entered the majority in January 2023, but it obtained less than three terabytes of data.
The subcommittee hired a digital forensics team to determine what information was not handed over, and the team discovered 117 files that were encrypted and deleted on Jan. 1, 2023, two days before Republicans were sworn into the majority, according to the report.
Loudermilk said in his letter to Thompson that the Mississippi Democrat acknowledged over the summer that the select committee "did not archive all Committee records as required by House Rules" and had "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."
One recovered file detailed an individual whose testimony was not archived, but "most of the recovered files are password-protected, preventing us from determining what they contain," Loudermilk also said.
The Georgia Republican is demanding Thompson provide a "list of passwords" for all select committee files. He also wrote letters to the White House and Homeland Security Department asking for "unedited and unredacted transcripts" of testimony from their officials before the former select committee.
"It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation," Loudermilk told the news network. "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."
This is not the first report of missing data from the Jan. 6 select committee. Loudermilk told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show last year that all videotapes from select committee depositions are missing.
At the very least, “a letter” written to bubble head is not enough. Johnson needs to start bringing charges of Contempt of Congress against Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson and former Republican, Liz Cheney, and Nancy Pelosi if they do not give them the passwords.
Con artists.
No one could EVER pass my crackword.
— The Wit and Wisdom of Hunter Buyden.
Just remember, if everything was reversed, a Republican would be thrown immediately into prison until they could “remember” the passwords, or until the flesh rotted off their bones, whichever came first.
Find out who ordered the deletion.
We’ll be told it was an accident. An intern hit the wrong button. This will satisfy the MSM.
But ....
Whoever ordered the deletion should go to jail.
The republicans are big pu$$y wimps and won’t charge them
Reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s emails. And the Mueller investigation phones. And the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors data. And the Georgia election...
Stuff like this continues to happen because there’s no accountability.
The destruction of the video de[positions is enough to throw the entire committee into the slammer. The problem is this, Most in Congress want this info, TRUMP and US to “go away...”
If the players and their political affiliation were reversed in this instance, the country would be on fire right now.
Someone has them as an insurance policy.
Grampa Dave there are high school kids that can get in there without breaking a sweat.
When my nephew was in high school, they all received iPads. All sorts of filters and preventative software to stop them from looking up porn, etc. They had that stuff bypassed by lunch.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
Anyone who still supports the Democrats has an evil, criminal heart.
And they did it after subpoenas to retain all those things had already been issued.
We have on both sides of our families, very smart and math enabled 20-30 year olds, who could probably do this by or during lunchtime.
They have great paying jobs and often are the managers in certain small groups.
Those are the older ones.
Some of the younger ones are in even more special worlds.
We have Zips...inside the wire.
Too easy, l am skeptical
And what is the punishment for breaking said rules? A sternly worded letter?
Compare and contrast a terabyte of data and video of sworn testimony versus eighteen and a half minutes of missing presidential voice recording.
You’re kidding, right?
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