House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said the January 6 Committee members may be referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution after reports they hid and destroyed crucial evidence.
As we highlighted earlier, Former Rep. Liz Cheney and the January 6 Committee member hid evidence that exonerated former President Donald Trump after he called for 10,000 National Guard troops to be deployed at the U.S. Capitol Building.
The January 6 committee members were warned to reserve all of the evidence by then-incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Loudermilk told JusttheNews that prosecution may be on the cards.
The House Republican leading the current review of security and intelligence failures during the 2021 Capitol riot put former lawmakers and staff on the now-defunct Democrat-run January 6 committee on notice Wednesday that he may make referrals for criminal obstruction or House ethics violations.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga, the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Just the News he is frustrated that videotapes of interviews, transcripts, and other evidence that Congress gathered under the prior January 6 inquiry run by Democrats was deleted, destroyed, moved to other federal agencies or locked behind passwords that have not been recovered, and he believes some form of accountability is warranted.
“As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Loudermilk said.
“But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get.’
“And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”
According to a document obtained by The Federalist:
“Cheney’s January 6 Committee suppressed evidence that President Donald Trump pushed for 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the nation’s capital,” adding that “Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had ‘no evidence’ to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops.”
The outlet also noted that the committee’s initial transcript of an interview contained crucial evidence from a credible source.
Additionally, allies of the January 6 committee disseminated negative stories and even conspiracy theories about Ornato before conducting follow-up interviews with him.
Cheney repeatedly told skeptics of the committee’s investigation to visit the Government Publishing Office website, which posted “transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sources 800+ page final report.”
No surprise Trump doesn’t want you to see the J6 Committee evidence. Here’s the GPO website with transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sourced 800+ page final report. Also links to our hearings. Might be a good time to watch those again. https://t.co/HtqbmCCaCD
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 18, 2023
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