US_ Fate of House Jan. 6 committee records wrapped in mystery

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Fate of House Jan. 6 committee records wrapped in mystery

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., speaks to an audience of Jackson residents regarding the failing water system in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022 at a town hall meeting at New Hope Baptist Church, hosted by the NAACP. … more >

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times - Friday, December 8, 2023


Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, who was chairman of the now-defunct House Jan. 6 committee, won’t say what happened to full transcripts and video of the committee’s depositions that GOP investigators now seek.

When asked by The Washington Times if the Jan. 6 committee gave the investigators the full video depositions, not select clips, he responded: “Everything we used in our proceedings, we filed consistently with what the law says.”

Mr. Thompson, Mississippi Democrat, drew a distinction between the unedited video recordings and the snippets used for presentations at the Jan. 6 committee’s carefully choreographed hearings.

“The law requires us that whatever product that we use, we archive that and that’s what we did,” he said of the House Administration Committee’s request for the unedited videos. “Everything that we used as a committee product, we shared.”

The Times pressed Mr. Thompson about what happened to the unedited video of the depositions that were not shown at the hearings.

“I have no idea,” Mr Thompson said. “We’re not required to keep certain materials.” Did the Jan. 6 committee, which is now being investigated by the Administration Committee, destroy documents or other material?

“I’m not aware of the destruction of any documents,” Mr. Thompson said. “I’m not aware of staff being instructed to destroy any documents.”

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the Administration Committee’s oversight panel, said in a letter Wednesday to Mr. Thompson that voters deserve to see more than the cherry-picked video clips shown at the hearings.

“By failing to preserve these videos, you deny the American public the right to review the footage and make their own conclusions about witnesses’ truthfulness,” wrote Mr. Loudermilk, Georgia Republican.

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