Posted on 01/28/2024 9:33:18 AM PST by John Semmens
Whenever voters elect a new majority party in either House of Congress the outgoing majority party is legally required to turn over files that were previously withheld from the minority party. After Republicans gained the majority in the elections of November 2022 former Chairman of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Ms) promised to turn over the four terabytes of archived data. Only two terabytes of data were received by the Republicans.
When Chairman of the House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga) was unsuccessful in his effort to obtain the missing data from Thompson he hired forensic investigators who found that 100 of missing files had been deleted on Jan 1, 2023--just days before they were supposed to have been turned over. The 100 files are password protected. Yet, Thompson has so far refused to provide these passwords to Loudermilk.
"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. "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."
"The information in the deleted files cannot be allowed to fall into the wrong hands," Thompson explained. "The Democratic Party is battling against the enemies of democracy. Loudermilk is one of those enemies. If it takes breaking the law to keep them from getting their hands on these files, so be it. I'm confident that Attorney General Garland won't prosecute me. I doubt Loudermilk could even get a majority of his own Party to agree to sanction me for violating the requirement to surrender these files to them. So, there's nothing they can do to make me give them what they want."
In related news, Germany is on the verge of outlawing the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Chancellor Olaf Scholz asserted "these right-wing extremists are attacking our democracy. We must take action to prevent them from seducing voters to elect them to power if democracy is to be saved." Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Scholz "remarkably insightful and courageous. We've been meek by comparison. Only a few states have attempted to keep Trump off the ballot when we should be banning every member of the Republican Party from being on this year's ballot. In Germany progressives have taken to the streets to demand that AfD be banned. If we could get that kind of support here the President would have the mandate he needs to ban Republicans from the ballot here."
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If evidence is deleted/destroyed why are people still in jail or replaced by Jan 6 committee members ?
Now that’s a prisoner swap I could support!
Subpoena the Democrats and when they don’t comply, it’s four months in prison! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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