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Republicans recover over 100 files deleted by Jan. 6 committee days before GOP took majority: Report
Just the News ^ | January 22, 2024 | Madeleine Hubbard

Posted on 01/22/2024 8:57:42 AM PST by george76

"It’s obvious that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths to prevent Americans from seeing certain documents produced in their investigation," Loudermilk said...

Forensic investigators hired by a Republican-led committee recovered more than 100 encrypted files that the Democratic-led House Jan. 6 Select Committee deleted days before the GOP took over the House majority, according to a new report released Monday.

House Administration Oversight Subcommittee Chair Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., sent a letter to former Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., demanding he provide answers and passwords for the data, which was deleted against House rules, according to Fox News Digital.

The Oversight Subcommittee, which is investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the former select committee, should have received four terabytes of archived data from the select committee after Republicans entered the majority in January 2023, but it obtained less than three terabytes of data.

The subcommittee hired a digital forensics team to determine what information was not handed over, and the team discovered 117 files that were encrypted and deleted on Jan. 1, 2023, two days before Republicans were sworn into the majority, according to the report.

Loudermilk said in his letter to Thompson that the Mississippi Democrat acknowledged over the summer that the select committee "did not archive all Committee records as required by House Rules" and had "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 detailed an individual whose testimony was not archived, but "most of the recovered files are password-protected, preventing us from determining what they contain," Loudermilk also said.

The Georgia Republican is demanding Thompson provide a "list of passwords" for all select committee files. He also wrote letters to the White House and Homeland Security Department asking for "unedited and unredacted transcripts" of testimony from their officials before the former select 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 the news network. "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."

This is not the first report of missing data from the Jan. 6 select committee. Loudermilk told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show last year that all videotapes from select committee depositions are missing.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: Georgia; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: capitol; committee; criminalobstruction; deleteddocs; deletedfiles; encrypted; files; j6; jan6; jan6docs; jan6files; january; january6; lawfare; politicalprisoners; spoliation
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1 posted on 01/22/2024 8:57:42 AM PST by george76
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I bet the Democrats have forgotten all the passwords for those password-protected files.


2 posted on 01/22/2024 8:59:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Um, isn’t this willful destruction of documents “Obstruction of Congress”?

Isn’t the FBI supposed to be prosecuting this?


3 posted on 01/22/2024 9:00:12 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: george76

What? No Bleach-bit?

NOOBS! - Hillary


4 posted on 01/22/2024 9:00:44 AM PST by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: george76

Those MAGA Republicans are making Liz sad! Stop in the name of “our precious democracy”!


5 posted on 01/22/2024 9:01:57 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: george76

They will slow-walk this to make sure nothing is revealed until after it no longer matters.


6 posted on 01/22/2024 9:03:27 AM PST by marron
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To: george76

If there are any good guys and gals still working at NSA, they could crack this coded B$ during their morning coffee break and have time for a refill of coffee.


7 posted on 01/22/2024 9:06:30 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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To: george76

Nancy and Lez tampered with evidence


8 posted on 01/22/2024 9:07:57 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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The Democrats’ obsession with “Cleaning” emerged with Hillary.
Now we see that Pelosi’s Select Committee went to great lengths
<><>to prevent Americans from seeing certain J6 documents produced in their investigation
<><>J6 investigators Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney intended to obstruct a House Subcommittee
<><>the two failed to preserve critical information and videos as required by House rules.
<><>last year we found videotapes from the J6 select committee depositions are missing.


9 posted on 01/22/2024 9:09:06 AM PST by Liz (Matthew 11.28-30: Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give strength.)
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To: Liz

Democrats rules for governance:
Leave no evidence.
Leave no witnesses.
Leave no money on the table.


10 posted on 01/22/2024 9:13:24 AM PST by sjmjax
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“...tampered with evidence...”

and aren’t there criminal laws that protect the public from such??????


11 posted on 01/22/2024 9:16:00 AM PST by elpadre (y ")
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and aren’t there criminal laws that protect the public from such??????


Hillary’s team bleached hard drives, wiped datum and smashed devices. Were they held accountable?


12 posted on 01/22/2024 9:17:40 AM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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Bookmark


13 posted on 01/22/2024 9:19:05 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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Easy. Run a password-cracker on said files. It may take awhile for the program to work, but should do the job!


14 posted on 01/22/2024 9:19:23 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: george76

WOW! This very good news. I bet Liz Cheney is deeply saddened by this news.


15 posted on 01/22/2024 9:22:07 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: george76

guess the liberals didnt ‘wipe it with a cloth’


16 posted on 01/22/2024 9:22:48 AM PST by Bob434
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‘recovered’ like with a cloth?.................


17 posted on 01/22/2024 9:22:53 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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would be excellent IF they coudl determine who deleted them as well- if it was liz- then wow


18 posted on 01/22/2024 9:24:32 AM PST by Bob434
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To: ClearCase_guy

Password:

ORANGE MAN BAD.....................

or

PASSWORD.......................


19 posted on 01/22/2024 9:24:56 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: elpadre
“...tampered with evidence...”

and aren’t there criminal laws that protect the public from such??????

Only sometimes.

20 posted on 01/22/2024 9:26:08 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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