House Speaker Mike Johnson’s aborted omnibus spending bill may have made it nearly impossible for legislative authorities to find out what the crooked Jan. 6 Select Committee was trying to cover up when fresh details about the Select Committee’s repression and data loss were being revealed.
A section of the bloated omnibus spending bill, which would have funded the government through March 2025,  , made it possible for lawmakers to obstruct subpoenas that demand information from the House, a provision that was obviously intended to shield members of the now-defunct Select Committee from additional scrutiny and potential criminal charges.  ,
It’s no wonder House Democrats attempted to suck a section of the expansive spending bill that would have protected them in light of recent information about the Select Committee on January 6. The overarching goal of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Select Committee was to cover up the facts about January 6 and create a narrative blaming President Donald Trump for the riots at the U.S. Capitol that day, according to an interim report released earlier this week by House Republicans.
The top lines from the nearly 130-page report by the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, as my colleague Tristan Justice , detailed, are shocking enough on their own.
More than 100 encrypted, password-protected documents, including those from House Republicans studying the committee, were destroyed by the Jan. 6 Committee, which included video recordings of hundreds of witness interviews for which Democrats had never provided the passwords.
The report also confirmed that Former Rep. Liz Cheney, the committee’s vice chair, colluded with” star witness” Cassidy Hutchinson using the encrypted Signal app to circumvent Hutchinson’s attorney, Stefan Passantino, whom Cheney later targeted in an attempt to get him disbarred. ( The collusion was serious enough that House Republicans recommended Cheney , face a criminal investigation , for “witness tampering”. )
Additionally, according to the report, top Defense Department officials allegedly lied to congressional leaders about the D.C. National Guard’s response after simply rejecting President Trump’s orders to ensure the safety of the planned demonstration at the Capitol.
What all these details reveal, along with an earlier investigation by the House GOP into the security breaches of January 6, is that Pelosi’s committee was not trying to lighten the events of that day, but to cover them up and spin a narrative that was completely unsupported by important facts, facts Cheney and the Democrats worked hard to prevent from coming out during their staged hearings and sham investigations.
Georgia Republican Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House subcommittee that released the report, correctly noted that the real causes of Jan. 6 were a” series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities”, and that there was an “excessive amount of political influence on critical decisions, and a greater concern over the optics than for protecting life and property”.
These things were difficult to uncover, said Loudermilk, because the Select Committee did its utmost to hide the truth and push a false narrative. For example, the committee tried to depict Trump as complicit in the Jan. 6 riots by dithering while violence erupted at the U. S. Capitol. In fact, the president urged Democrats to accept a detachment of 10,000 National Guard troops in order to bolster the Capitol ahead of the planned demonstrations there, but Democrat leaders objected.
According to the report, Trump’s own Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller refused to use “any and all military assets necessary to ensure safety for the planned demonstrations on January 6, 2021 .” On January 3, Trump’s aide Christopher Miller issued an order on the day before the riots. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy “intentionally delayed the D. C. National Guard response” and then lied about it,” stating that D. C. National Guard was physically moving to the Capitol, with full knowledge these forces had yet to receive any orders,” according to the report.
All of this is unfortunate enough, but it supports what Loudermilk disclosed last month in a letter to the Department of Defense’s inspector general that the Pentagon withheld important information about delays in the National Guard’s deployment in its own IG report about January 6. In his letter, Loudermilk claimed that the inspector general’s office “knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in crafting a narrative that is favorable to DoD and Pentagon leadership,” and that the Defense Department IG report should be corrected.
A Justice Department , inspector general report , released earlier this month, revealed there were dozens of FBI informants among the demonstrators on January 6 and that few of them had entered the Capitol. One of those who entered the Capitol even had the FBI cover his travel expenses to and from Washington, D.C.
In addition, the DOJ report found that the FBI didn’t conduct routine searches of the area around the Capitol to look for potential security threats but didn’t provide any justification for it. The lack of canvassing was described by then-FBI Associate Deputy Director Paul Abbate as a “basic step that was missed” and told the Justice Department’s OIG that he would have anticipated a formal canvassing to have taken place through what the FBI refers to as the issuance of an “intelligence collection product.” We still don’t have an explanation for why this wasn’t done, and to date no one at the FBI has been held accountable.
In fact, no one in the entire federal government has been held accountable for any of the wrongdoing, coverups, insubordination, and dereliction of duty that transpired before and after Jan. 6. In part, because we don’t know the extent of it thanks to the coverup by the Democrats ‘ Select Committee. What we need now more than ever is full transparency, a complete investigation, and all the records and documents the Select Committee has refused to hand over to House Republicans.
It can’t be stressed enough that , none of what we know now , about Jan. 6 came out during the sham hearings and phony investigations conducted by Pelosi’s Select Committee. Any evidence that countered the narrative that it was all Trump’s fault was quashed, denied, or destroyed. Republicans have since unearthed some of it, but there’s much more to be discovered. The American people deserve to know what actually transpired that day.
