The former House Select Committee was reported on January 6 to have deleted 117 files containing “sensitive information” before Republicans regained the House majority.
The House Administration Committee Oversight Subcommittee, which is investigating both the 2021 Capitol riot and the Democratic-led investigation into previous riots, said more than 100 files would be encrypted when the House transitions to Republican control in 2023. I learned that it had been deleted from my hard drive. according to to the New York Post.
The select committee had planned to turn over 4 terabytes of archived data to Republican Chairman Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, but his committee only received 2 terabytes of data, the report said. .
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A digital forensics team hired by Loudermilk's committee discovered that 117 files were deleted on January 1, 2023, days before the transition after the midterm elections, according to a “source familiar with the investigation.” said. fox news.
Mr. Loudermilk sent a letter to Democratic Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson, who chaired the dissolution committee on the Capitol riot, requesting access to the encrypted files.
“One of the recovered files revealed the identity of an individual whose testimony was not archived by the task force,” Loudermilk wrote. “Additionally, we found that most of the recovered files were password protected, making it impossible to determine their contents.”
Mr. Loudermilk noted that most of the recovered files required passwords to access them, and asked Mr. Thompson that the committee would be able to “access these files and ensure that they are properly archived. asked to provide a list of passwords for all password-protected files created by the Select Committee. ” according to the outlet. (Related: President Trump appears to confuse with Nancy Pelosi and Republican rival over claim Jan. 6 evidence was 'deleted and destroyed')
Loudermilk also ordered the White House General Counsel and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) General Counsel to provide the former select committee with an “unredacted, unredacted record” of White House and Department of Homeland Security testimony. The newspaper reported that the request was made. The chairman set a January 24 deadline for compliance for the White House and DHS.
