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.
Oh please. Remember when Weissman and the rest of the Mueller Hit Squad “accidentally” deleted the content of their government-issued phones? Not a single arrest occurred.
How do you propose the House GOP members “charge” these traitors without the fully-corrupt and partisan DOJ doing so?
People here seem to think that the GOP can just charge Democrat criminals by magic?
They don’t detail what the files are. If they’re WORD documents, the cracking is easy. There are tools that can just DO it. (I once cracked the password on an Access database by simply changing the code inside Access to take whatever I typed in, and then use the stored hash to decrypt the file. What it was SUPPOSED to do was to hash what you typed in, compare it to the stored internal hash, and if they matched it would use the hash to decrypt the file. I made the “compare” not care if they matched or not).
Release two or three of the encrypted files on the internet. Provide as much detail about the file as possible. Put up a $1 million bounty for the first person who can provide the password.
I doubt it will last a week.
Use the password provided and attempt to unencrypt the remaining files. I doubt that multiple passwords were used.
Amazing how we would already be jailed and serving a sentence, but the ruling class will ignore the letters and requests and that will be all there is to it.
Would love to hear Liz put on the spot to answer this.
“You’re kidding, right?”
No, I’m just hoping that one of the Feds who monitors FR will pass this along to his or her boss. You never know, they just might go ahead and do the right thing.
Amazing.
You would think the democrats would want to preserve every piece of evidence to show how January 6th was worse than a million 9-11-01 terrorist attacks, the US civil war and a billion Pearl Harbor attacks. Amazing how it was wiped, like with a cloth.
Get one of those rebel hacker teens from the movies on it. They always solve everything.
The most interesting thing here is that Bennie Thompson sent these files to DHS — hmmm...
I bet the cover letter read, “FYI — just in case you still have any loose ends.”
-PJ
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This is extremely good news.NOw to get these documents into a committee hearing and back on the Congressional Record.
I want to see them.And so does the rest of MAGA America.
Lets undo this false flag event of Jan. 6 .
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