by R. Cort Kirkwood
The leftists who ran the disbanded House Select Committee on January 6 tried to get away with deleting files from their witchhunt just before the GOP took over the House of Representatives.
What they didn’t want incoming Republican legislators to see is unclear. But the chairman of the House Administration’s Committee Subcommittee on Oversight plans to find out.
Georgia’s Barry Loudermilk has asked J6 Committee chief Bennie Thompson to hand over passwords to the encrypted files, since recovered.
New Probe
The request, Fox News reported, is part of the Oversight subcommittee’s new investigation into the “insurrection” on January 6, 2021 that supposedly was the worst attack on “democracy” since September 11, or maybe even the Civil War, as President Joe Biden said.
But Thompson, a former insurrectionist himself and friend of cop killers, apparently thought he and/or his accomplices could deep-six records they didn’t want the incoming GOP majority to see.
“Sources familiar with Loudermilk’s investigation told Fox News Digital that, per House rules, the former select committee … was required to turn over all documents from its investigation to the new, GOP-led panel, after Republicans secured the majority of the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterm elections,” Fox reported:
Sources told Fox News Digital that Thompson had told Loudermilk that the select committee would turn over four terabytes of archived data, but that the new committee only received approximately two terabytes of data.
Fox News Digital has learned that Loudermilk’s committee hired a digital forensics team to scrape hard drives to determine what information they were not given.
That cyber squad found 117 files either deleted or encrypted, and “sources said those files were deleted on Jan. 1, 2023 — just days before Thompson’s team was required to transfer the data to the new committee.”
Good news is, Thompson and/or his co-conspirators were caught red-handed. The deleted and encrypted files were recovered.
Now, Loudermilk is demanding an answer:
“As you acknowledged in your July 7, 2023 letter, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol (Select Committee) did not archive all Committee records as required by House Rules,” Loudermilk wrote. “You wrote that you 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 disclosed the identity of an individual whose testimony was not archived by the Select Committee,” Loudermilk wrote. “Further, we found that most of the recovered files are password-protected, preventing us from determining what they contain.”
Loudermilk expects the former insurrectionist to hand over the passwords, Fox reported, and he “penned letters to White House general counsel and the general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, requesting ‘unedited and unredacted transcripts’ of White House and DHS testimony to the former select committee.”
Thompson’s committee didn’t turn over those interviews either, Fox reported.
Loudermilk’s committee knows the transcripts of these interviews exist, but said they were not turned over by the Thompson-led 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 Fox News. “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.”
Thompson’s Former Life
Thompson, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must have believed, was a natural to run the former J6 Committee. Democrats were calling the protest against the illegitimate election that Joe Biden “won” an “insurrection,” something Thompson knows something about.
He is, again, a former insurrectionist and was involved with a group that planned a war to take several Southern states.
As The New American reported when Pelosi picked him, citing John Solomon of Just The News, in the 1960s, Thompson was involved with the insurrectionist-secessionist group of radical blacks called the Republic of New Africa (RNA).
After some of its members were arrested, Thompson said the cops should leave them alone.
Reported Solomon: “The FBI had already determined the group had engaged in multiple violent crimes, and posed a national security threat with its stated plan to take over the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia to create a secessionist new country for African-Americans.”
The group planned to create that New Africa “by arms if necessary.”
Not surprisingly, RNA members murdered a cop in a shootout. Afterward, Thompson appeared at a news conference at which participants said the cop got what he had coming.
As for the J6 committee, staffers must have been none too happy that the GOP took over the House and disbanded the panel.
As of June 2022, some staffers were earning $15,000 monthly, and more than half of the committee’s $3.8 million budget was blown on salaries.
