American Values
Investigating The Investigators
Kudos to Rep. Barry Loudermilk! The Georgia Republican is chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating the work of the January 6th Committee.
As you may recall, the committee was stacked with anti-Trump members. Then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the unprecedented action of rejecting the members House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy wanted to appoint to the committee. It turned into a Stalinist show trial after that.
When Republicans won the House after the 2022 elections, one of the first things Kevin McCarthy did was to instruct the January 6th Committee to preserve all its records so the committee’s work could be audited. McCarthy also wanted to investigate the security failures that occurred that day, which Pelosi’s kangaroo court refused to do.
Here we are now a year later and House Republicans have hit one roadblock after another. Rep. Loudermilk tells Fox News that his committee has received about half of the information that Democrats initially indicated they would hand over.
Moreover, they discovered that more than 100 files had been deleted from the committee’s computers. Forensic experts recovered the files only to find out that they were encrypted. Loudermilk, who is vowing to discover the truth, is demanding that Democrats surrender the passwords so the files can be accessed.
Who knows what’s in these files? For example, we do know that Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis conspired with the January 6th Committee in putting together her case against Donald Trump. The president’s defense team would undoubtedly like to know more about that.
Meanwhile, there are many unanswered questions about the events of January 6th. For example, no one has ever adequately explained why so many people were allowed to just walk through open doors and stroll throughout the Capitol Building.
And trying to get answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray about how many FBI agents and informants were in the crowd that day is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.
Wray openly laments the growing lack of trust Americans have in the FBI. To build trust, all he has to do is just answer the question! How many FBI agents and informants were on the Capitol grounds on January 6th?
There’s no reason to not answer that question. But Wray’s non-answers are actually an answer. It’s very likely that an embarrassing number of agents was on the Hill that day.
