Loudermilk requests missing information from previous J6 Select Committee investigation

House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on January 6 Chairman Barry Loudermilk on Thursday sent letters to Attorney General Pam Bondi and several businesses, seeking missing information that the previous January 6 committee failed to turn over. 

House Republicans approved the creation of the new select subcommittee earlier this month, which House Speaker Mike Johnson chose Loudermilk to lead. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has nominated California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell to represent his party on the panel.

Loudermilk claimed in the letters that the Democratic-led January 6 select committee, which investigated the 2021 riot shortly after it occurred, failed to archive over one terabyte of digital data, including video footage and documents. 

"Former January 6th Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson conceded that he withheld footage of witness interviews and depositions," Loudermilk wrote. "To date, Representative Thompson has failed to account for the missing footage and data."

The letters request the institutions, including the Department of Justice, the University of Virginia and Broadcast Management Group, among others, produce the same documents and information it provided to the previous select committee by Oct. 2.   

“This is an important first step in unraveling the predetermined narrative the former January 6th Select Committee crafted to hurt President Donald J. Trump," Loudermilk said in a news release. "Why else would their committee delete or fail to properly archive more than a terabyte of data? I look forward to uncovering the rest of the missing data and providing the American people with a complete and accurate report on the events surrounding January 6, 2021, and the partisan investigation that followed.”

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.