A new GOP House report investigating the bipartisan Jan. 6 committee accuses that committee of partisanship and questions some Jan. 6 witnesses. The report was chiefly authored by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga, who has been accused of giving reconnaissance tours to domestic terrorists the day before the attack itself. Loudermilk says his report is important and he hopes to organize Jan. 6-style public hearings to discuss its conclusions. Critics accuse Loudermilk of seeking to deflect attention away from himself and Donald Trump’s involvement after Trump helped Loudermilk win reelection in 2022.
Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten reviews the details of the GOP’s subcommittee report and argues that the Jan. 6 hearings were merely partisan show trials. Weingarten also alleges that both Loudermilk and Trump are innocent in regards to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
As bad an abuse of Congress’s power as we knew this committee was, a new report from House Republicans who investigated the committee shows it’s even more illegitimate and corrupt than we thought.
Among the major revelations from the House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee is that J6 committee chair Democrat Bennie Thompson obstructed Congress to the nth degree.
Thompson neither archived nor provided the oversight subcommittee video recordings of witness interviews, up to 900 interview summaries or transcripts, over one terabyte of data, and 100 deleted or encrypted documents — all despite his obligation to do so.
The subcommittee found the encrypted or deleted documents only because a digital forensics team it contracted was able to recover them. When the subcommittee asked Congressman Thompson for the passwords to the protected files, he said, “I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.”