On Thursday, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), Chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, announced that all deposition tapes from the now-defunct January 6 Committee have disappeared.
This follows the former chairman’s statement claiming he did not expect keeping them.
“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,” Loudermilk explained. “I wrote a letter to [Jan. 6 committee Chair] Bennie Thompson asking for them. And he confirmed that they did not preserve those [tapes]. He didn’t feel that they had to.”
However, Loudermilk added that “according to House rules, you have to preserve any data and information and documents that are used in an official proceeding, which they did. [The House Democrats] actually aired portions of these tapes on their televised hearings, which means they had to keep those. Yet he chose not to.”
Newsmax added: The congressman explained that contrasting the footage with the current Jan. 6 evidence could help piece together what happened that day. Loudermilk points out that former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson has changed her testimony once before and that transcripts alone won’t do justice.
“When you got someone like Cassidy, who has significantly changed her testimony, I want to see what her body language is when she gave her original testimony. I want to see what her voice inflection is. Was she very confident in what she was saying at that time but then later decided to change it?
“This is why it’s so important that we have those videotapes,” the congressman added, “and I believe that’s probably why we don’t have them … I believe they exist somewhere. We’ve just got to find where all these videos are.”
A lawsuit filed by a former attorney for January 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson appears to contradict statements she publicly made during her testimony before the Democrat-controlled committee.
According to Just the News, the suit includes text messages indicating that Hutchinson initially did not wish to comply with the committee’s investigation and appeared to be preparing to leak information independently of her lawyer.
These texts were sent just prior to her initial closed-door interview with the special committee investigating the January 6 riot, and prior to revising her account of events following her parting with first lawyer Stefan Passantino.
Passantino claimed that he had been pressured by Hutchinson into remaining “loyal” to former President Donald Trump.
The texts have been added as evidence in Passantino’s lawsuit against Andrew Weissmann, an MSNBC legal analyst, former prosecutor, and deputy Special Counsel Robert Mueller, alleging Weissmann “publicly impugned [Passantino’s] reputation” by asserting that he coached his client into providing false congressional testimony.
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