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Did the corrupt J6 committee destroy evidence of its own proceedings?
American Thinker ^ | 12/02/2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 12/02/2023 4:42:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The corrupt January 6 Committee, which culminated in a show hearing that would have made Stalin proud, conducted multiple witness interviews in the lead-up to the televised hearing. However, it refused to release any information about those interviews, except for anti-Trump, anti-MAGA leaks to the media. In theory, now that there’s a new Speaker in the House who is steadily releasing 41,000 hours of Capitol footage about events on January 6, we should also be seeing what the J6 Committee hid behind closed doors. However, that may not be possible. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), who chairs the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, explains that the interview videotapes have vanished:

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), who chairs the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee that is currently investigating security lapses connected to the Capitol riot and potential ramifications for upcoming criminal trials, is questioning the disappearance of the video evidence.

“All of the videotapes of all depositions are gone,” Mr. Loudermilk told the “Just the News, No Noise” television show Thursday night.

“We found out about this early in the investigation when I received a call from someone who was looking for some information off one of the videotapes, and we started searching, and we had none,” Mr. Loudermilk explained. “I wrote a letter to Bennie Thompson asking for them. And he confirmed that they did not preserve those types. He didn’t feel that they had to.”

According to Mr. Loudermilk, the videotapes met the requirements for congressional evidence under House rules because some of the segments were shown at hearings, and the now-defunct J6 committee, led by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss), ought to have kept all of the recordings.

“According to House rules, you have to preserve any data and information and documents that are used in an official proceeding, which they did.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: committee; congress; jan6; proceedings
In civil litigation, the moment a lawsuit is filed, the defendant must preserve any documents that could reasonably relate to the subjects at issue in the litigation. If, instead, he destroys those documents, he is guilty of spoliation, and spoliation is a big deal. It’s the kind of thing that can see an automatic judgment taken against the defendant because the court will assume that the documents, if they’d been admitted into evidence, would have proven the defendant’s guilt.
1 posted on 12/02/2023 4:42:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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2 posted on 12/02/2023 4:43:47 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Every single member of the J6 “Committee..” serving in Congress or not, should be in jail without bail.


3 posted on 12/02/2023 4:47:19 PM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: SeekAndFind

If there is corruption, then the answer is affirmative.


4 posted on 12/02/2023 4:48:44 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

5 posted on 12/02/2023 4:49:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SeekAndFind
You can bet the Department of Justice will get right on this one.

I joke.

6 posted on 12/02/2023 5:02:02 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes.


7 posted on 12/02/2023 5:07:54 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: SeekAndFind
If one party to a lawsuit destroys evidence, the other party is entitled to assume that the destroyed evidence was most favorable to themselves.

The "best evidence" rule should be used to throw out the J6 interpretations of the transcripts, since they are the ones who purposely destroyed the original "best evidence" to prevent President Trump from using it in his defense.

-PJ

8 posted on 12/02/2023 5:19:31 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: sauropod

Need to start to remove all the members of the J6 committee for destroying evidence ... give Santos some company.


9 posted on 12/02/2023 6:25:30 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: sauropod

Big bucks went into Cheney’s bank account. She went from having a net worth of six million 6 years age to have a net worth of $34 million now. Now we know what happened.

$34


10 posted on 12/02/2023 6:44:08 PM PST by chopperk
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To: sauropod

Thompson has always been the Democrats “cleaner” (a mafia guy who cleans up after a killing). He hides behind his congressional power and his skin color.

In other words, he is a coward, liar, and MARXIST.


11 posted on 12/04/2023 5:56:08 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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