GOP Rep. demands full Jan. 6 panel transcripts from White House.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk Demands Release of Unredacted Transcripts from Jan. 6 Committee
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) has taken a bold stance, demanding that the White House release the unredacted transcripts of interviews conducted by the Jan. 6 House Select Committee. In a letter sent on Friday, Loudermilk, who is leading his own investigation into the Democrat-led panel, specifically requested the unedited and unredacted testimony from Secret Service agents or employees who were assigned to former President Trump on January 6, 2021, and testified in front of the select committee at the end of 2022.
“Once these records, including transcripts of testimony from the Secret Service agents and employees, have been returned in their original, unaltered format, I am willing to discuss any redactions you believe are necessary prior to these records being released publicly,” Loudermilk wrote in the letter.
Loudermilk, who serves as the chairman of the House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight, also expressed the subcommittee’s willingness to store the documents in a classified setting if the White House deemed some of the testimony required classification. He set a deadline of Aug. 30, 2023, for White House special counsel Richard Sauber to turn over the testimony.
This request comes as a response to Sauber’s letter on Tuesday, in which he informed Loudermilk that the White House is still reviewing transcripts of four Secret Service agents. Sauber stated that redactions would be made to protect sensitive operational and personal information before sending the transcripts to Congress and the National Archives. However, Loudermilk firmly stated that anything less than the original and unredacted interviews would be deemed “unacceptable.”
“Seems the White House is trying to redact and hide information on documents they do not own,” Loudermilk posted on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. “Anything other than my subcommittee getting original, unredacted documents is unacceptable.”
Loudermilk made it clear that he would respond “appropriately” if redacted versions of the transcripts were released. He emphasized that the House, not the White House, owns these records since they were testimony given to a House committee, not just records from an executive branch agency.
Loudermilk initiated his investigation into the panel in March, focusing on security failures at the Capitol complex during the riot, including any potential failures by Capitol Police.
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