Posted on 01/25/2024 8:02:30 AM PST by bitt
When you have a terrible sales pitch, it’s best to eliminate the materials. Except this wasn’t a sales pitch—it was an official act of Congress that required evidence to be collected, cataloged, and preserved. People were sworn under oath to make the case that Donald Trump was Augusto Pinochet reincarnated, who tried to overthrow the government on January 6, 2021. Then-Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) staked their political careers on this Democratic hit job and lost. Cheney got blown out in a primary challenge, while Kinzinger opted not to seek reelection.
After months of this select committee, they turned up nothing that we didn’t already know, which was that Trump didn’t foment an armed rebellion, this wasn’t some cataclysmic event, and this was all one massive Democratic Party fundraising operation—all of which was given the stamp of bipartisan approval because of Kinzinger and Cheney’s participation.
This event was so jarring to the national psyche, such a blow to the country, that this committee failed to preserve any of its communications with the Biden White House. The evidence was destroyed, something not typically seen with congressional investigations viewed as embodying the highest levels of national concern. And now, we have another incident of evidence being lost in ‘Mandyville.’ This time, the files in question were encrypted and deleted before Republicans formally retook control of the House in 2023. A forensic team contracted by Republicans was able to recover the data. Now, they need to access it (via Fox News):
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
They’re thugs and goons and liars... so of course they would destroy evidence. The boys that used to protect us have gone dirty cop....
Whenever important documents like these are destroyed, it must be because the penalty for destruction of documents is much less than the penalty for what the incriminating information that the documents would have exposed. I recall this happening during the Clinton administration, especially in the Chinese funny money hearings
I think it would be reasonable to remove the presumption of innocence from government agents who destroy records in violation of law.
Similarly, if someone is convicted based on evidence claimed to exist, and then the evidence is willfully destroyed, the destroyer should get the same penalty as the guilty party, and, depending on circumstances, perhaps the convict should be set free.
They can all be locked up now right?
“failed to preserve any of its communications with the Biden White House”
The way this is worded makes it sound like it was an oversight. We known full well that it was intentional.
Definitely reasonable but it’s been a long time since anything reasonable has come out of DC.
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