Jan. 6 Committee Failed to Preserve Documents, Didn’t Investigate Security Failures: Republican Lawmaker

The “Blue Team” was specifically supposed to look at security failures by Capitol officials, but said that particular team appeared to have been “shut down.”

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) speaks in Nashville, Tenn., on June 18, 2022. Seth Herald/Getty Images

A House Republican reviewing the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Committee has raised concerns that the Democrat-led panel did not properly preserve all records of their work.

This week, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, released records of his communications with Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the former head of the House Jan. 6 Committee. Mr. Loudermilk first shared his copies of the communications with Fox News earlier this week and alleged the Jan. 6 Committee did not preserve its deposition footage or documents covering any investigation of security failures at the Capitol.