GOP J6 Committee suspects Dems concealed evidence in alleged cover-up.

Republican Probe⁤ into Jan.⁣ 6 Committee Reveals Failure to Comply with House Rules

In November, the ‍leader of ‍the⁢ incoming House Republican majority, Kevin McCarthy, ​ sent a⁣ letter to the Select Committee on ​Jan.⁣ 6 reminding lawmakers they were required to​ “preserve ⁣all⁢ records” related to the panel’s work. Nine months ⁣later, however, ⁢Republicans in charge of⁢ investigating⁤ the committee’s work say the probe ​failed ‍to comply with House rules.

GOP ​Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, who became the target of⁤ the since-disbanded committee’s salacious ‍attacks last summer, is leading the Republican probe⁤ into the Jan. 6 Committee as‌ chairman of the Subcommittee ‌on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration. Loudermilk told Fox News on ⁣Tuesday his team​ has struggled to locate⁤ the ⁢leftover material required to review the Select Committee’s work under Chairman Rep. Bennie ⁣Thompson, D-Miss.⁣ The partisan ⁣probe ⁤spent 18 months prosecuting political opponents and was complete with Soviet-style show trials presented with fabricated evidence while lawmakers sought⁣ to portray⁢ the​ Capitol riot as a “deadly​ insurrection.”

“Nothing was ⁤indexed. ⁤There was no table of contents ‌index. ‌Usually when ‌you conduct ⁤this level of investigation, ⁣you use a database system and everything is digitized, ‌indexed. We got ⁢nothing like‍ that,” ⁣Loudermilk ​said.⁣ “So it took us a long time going through it and one⁢ thing I started realizing ⁢is​ we don’t have​ anything much ⁢at all from the Blue Team.”

The “Blue ​Team” refers to the investigative staff ⁣on the committee in charge of probing the Capitol security failures, all of which point to⁢ former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. After then-Fox News prime-time host Tucker Carlson aired footage undermining‌ central narratives of the Jan. 6 Committee in March, Chairman Thompson admitted the Select Committee didn’t actually review Capitol surveillance video.

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“We’ve got ‌lots of depositions, ⁣we’ve got lots of subpoenas, we’ve got video and other documents provided through subpoenas by individuals,” Loudermilk told Fox. “But we’re not seeing anything from the Blue Team as‍ far as reports on the⁤ investigation⁢ they ‍did looking into the actual breach itself.”

“What we​ also‌ realized⁣ we didn’t have ‌was the​ videos of all the depositions,” said the congressman.

Fox News reported on⁢ a ⁢series of⁤ exchanges between Thompson and Loudermilk, the latter of whom was defamed by the committee as giving “reconnaissance” tours of⁣ the Capitol on the eve of the riot. The Jan.‌ 6⁣ tapes aired by Carlson, however, show the ‌Georgia Republican was giving ⁢a routine tour of the ⁤complex to constituents.

Loudermilk told Fox News his committee was only given ‌2.5 terabytes of data, ⁣contrary to Thompson’s initial claim the Select Committee handed ‌over 4. A letter ‍from the former chairman of the Democrats’ probe ⁣this summer conceded the Select Committee ‌failed⁣ to maintain records that the probe was required to preserve.

“Consistent with guidance ​from⁣ the Office of the⁢ Clerk and other authorities, the Select Committee did not ⁢archive⁤ temporary committee records that⁣ were not elevated by the Committee’s actions,​ such as use​ in hearings or​ official ‌publications, or those that did not further ‌its investigative activities,” Thompson wrote.

“He’s⁣ saying they decided⁣ they ⁢didn’t have to,” Loudermilk told Fox News. “The more we go in the more we’re realizing that there’s things that⁢ we don’t have. We don’t ​have anything about security failures⁢ at the​ Capitol,⁣ we don’t have the ‍videos of the depositions.”

McCarthy sent the letter demanding‌ records preservation after⁢ reporting from The ‍Washington ‌Post raised concerns ‍that the ⁢Select Committee was prepared ‌to ‍omit key details of ‍the investigation.

“It ‍is imperative that⁣ all information collected be preserved not just for institutional prerogatives but for transparency to the American people,”‍ McCarthy wrote‌ last fall.‌ “The American people have a right to⁢ know that ⁣the allegations you have made are‌ supported by the ⁢facts and to be ⁤able to view the transcripts⁢ with an eye towards encouraged enforcement of 18 USC ⁣1001.”

California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa threatened ⁣ members⁣ who served on the Jan. 6 Committee​ with censure over the destruction of ​records.

“The ones that ​are still in⁣ Congress might very well face a ​censure ⁤for what they‍ participated in,” Issa said.

Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, ⁤a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also⁤ been featured in Real ⁣Clear Politics​ and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and⁢ minored in journalism. Follow him⁢ on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him‍ at ‍[email protected].​ Sign up for Tristan’s email newsletter here.