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House Jan. 6 Committee deleted more than 100 encrypted files days before GOP took majority: sources
NY Post ^ | 01/22/2024 | Brooke Singman

Posted on 01/22/2024 6:31:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

EXCLUSIVE: The former House Select Committee on Jan. 6 deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe just days before Republicans took over the majority in the House of Representatives, Fox News Digital has learned.

The House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee is leading an investigation into Jan. 6, 2021, led by Chairman Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga. The panel is investigating the security failures on that day, as well as the “actions” of the former select committee investigating the Capitol riot.

Loudermilk, last week, told Fox News Digital his investigation has entered a “new phase” with renewed support from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has committed additional resources to the panel’s investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; capitol; committee; criminalobstruction; deletion; destruction; encrypted; encryptedfiles; evidencetampering; files; j6; jan6; january; january6; lawfare; passwords; politicalprisoners; secrecy; spoliation
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1 posted on 01/22/2024 6:31:19 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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deleted more than 100 encrypted files from its probe just days before Republicans took over the majority

Pelosi and the Jan 6th Congressional panel participants are traitors to our country.

2 posted on 01/22/2024 6:34:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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"House Jan. 6 Committee gave aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States as they deleted more than 100 encrypted files days before GOP took majority: sources."

There. Fixed it.

3 posted on 01/22/2024 6:36:31 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What are you trying to coverup nazipelouzy and upchuckyschlepter ????

TREASONOUS SCUMBAGS !!!!!!!


4 posted on 01/22/2024 6:36:40 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t destruction of government records a felony?.........................


5 posted on 01/22/2024 6:36:48 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The panel is investigating the security failures on that day...

They weren't failures, it was intentional. I hate these mfers.

6 posted on 01/22/2024 6:37:48 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee: “Did you delete material concerning Jan 6th that might have exonerated those who were led into the Capitol bui.ding?”

Liberals: “Of course we did... Whatcha gonna do about it?”

The House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee: “Oh, nothing, we were just curious is all”


7 posted on 01/22/2024 6:38:30 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The House has the absolute authority to punish it’s own members, Charge and Hold them for Contempt until the end of the Congressional Session.

“U.S. CODE
TITLE 2—THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 6—CONGRESSIONAL AND COMMITTEE PROCEDURE; INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 193. Privilege of witnesses
No witness is privileged to refuse to testify to any fact, or to produce any paper, respecting which he shall be examined by either House of Congress, or by any joint committee established by a joint or concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress, or by any committee of either House, upon the ground that his testimony to such fact or his production of such paper may tend to disgrace him or otherwise render him infamous.”

Simply look up Hinds Precedents, especially chapters 53 and 51, and Cannon’s Precedents, especially chapters 184-185. You’ll find numerous detailed cases of Congress asserting its power, arresting people, holding them until they agreed to answer questions, and then releasing them. Some of these people did not refuse to appear, but simply failed to satisfactorily answer questions.

Congress has the authority to arrest and imprison those found in Contempt. The power extends throughout the United States and is an inherent power (does not depend upon legislated act)

If found in Contempt the person can be arrested under a warrant of the Speaker of the House of Representatives or President of the Senate, by the respective Sergeant at Arms.

Statutory criminal contempt is an alternative to inherent contempt.

Under the inherent contempt power Congress may imprison a person for a specific period of time or an indefinite period of time, except a person imprisoned by the House of Representatives may not be imprisoned beyond adjournment of a session of Congress.

Imprisonment may be coercive or punitive.

Some references

[1] Joseph Story’s Commentaries on the Constitution, Volume 2, § 842 http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/a1_5s21.html

[2] Anderson v. Dunn - 19 U.S. 204 - “And, as to the distance to which the process might reach, it is very clear that there exists no reason for confining its operation to the limits of the District of Columbia; after passing those limits, we know no bounds that can be prescribed to its range but those of the United States.” http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/204/case.html

[3] Jurney v. MacCracken, 294 U.S. 125 http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/125/case.html 73rd Cong., 78 Cong. Rec. 2410 (1934) https://archive.org/details/congressionalrec78aunit

[4] McGrain v. Daugherty, 273 U.S. 135 - Under a warrant issued by the President of the Senate the Deputy to the Senate Sergeant at Arms arrested at Cincinnati, Ohio, Mally S. Daugherty, who had been twice subpoenaed by the Senate and twice failed to appear. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/273/135/case.html

[5] Rules of the House of Representatives, Rule IV Duties of the Sergeant at Arms - [] execute the commands of the House, and all processes issued by authority thereof, directed to him by the Speaker. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/HMAN-105/pdf/HMAN-105-pg348.pdf

[6] An analysis of Congressional inquiry, subpoena, and enforcement http://www.constitutionproject.org/documents/when-congress-comes-calling-a-primer-on-the-principles-practices-and-pragmatics-of-legislative-inquiry/

In 1857, a New York Times reporter refused to say which members of Congress had asked him to get them bribes (protecting his “sources” just as various Judith Millers today protect the people who feed them proven lies that costs thousands of lives), so Congress locked him up until he answered and then banned him from Congress.

In 1924 an oil executive appeared but refused to answer certain questions, so the Senate held — literally held — him in contempt. Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana argued that this question of contempt was of the gravest importance, and that it involved “the very life of the effective existence of the House of Representatives of the United States and of the Senate of the United States.” The matter was taken to court, and the witness fined and imprisoned.


8 posted on 01/22/2024 6:38:57 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Literal Definition of Obstruction.

Therefore, they are Obstructing an official Congressional investigation AND Process of Congress. They need to be ARRESTED and CHARGED with the above.

It’s a INSURRECTION.


9 posted on 01/22/2024 6:40:26 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: ChicagoConservative27; bitt; little jeremiah

isn’t destroying evidence illegal?

where was the J6 committee getting their advise? Hildabeast?


10 posted on 01/22/2024 6:41:09 AM PST by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: Red Badger

Sounds like obstruction of Congress to me.


11 posted on 01/22/2024 6:41:12 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is any of it able to be recovered?


12 posted on 01/22/2024 6:45:27 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: Red Badger

Not when ‘good’ Democrats do it. ‘Bad’ Democrats get prosecuted or worse (see James Traficant, Bob Menendez, Seth Rich, Vince Foster, Ron Brown....)


13 posted on 01/22/2024 6:46:54 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: VanShuyten

I though that the National Archives were supposed to store and preserve everything..............................


14 posted on 01/22/2024 6:47:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Isn’t this Russian disinformation? (sarcasm)


15 posted on 01/22/2024 6:47:40 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: 1Old Pro

So bring the IT team in under oath, and make them explain why those files cannot be recovered from backups.


16 posted on 01/22/2024 6:47:59 AM PST by DarthFuzball ("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
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To: VanShuyten

RICO ...........................


17 posted on 01/22/2024 6:48:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lock them all up.


18 posted on 01/22/2024 6:49:49 AM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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To: Red Badger

In other words obstruction


19 posted on 01/22/2024 6:52:17 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Pelosi is behind everything.


20 posted on 01/22/2024 6:53:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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