According to Fox News Digital, the now-disbanded House Select Committee on Jan. 6 deleted over 100 encrypted files before Republicans took the House majority.
The House Administration Committee's Oversight Subcommittee is leading an investigation of security failures on J6 and the former select committee's handling of its investigation.
Sources familiar with Loudermilk's investigation told Fox News Digital that, per House rules, the former select committee, which was chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., was required to turn over all documents from its investigation to the new, GOP-led panel, after Republicans secured the majority of the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterm elections.
Sources told Fox News Digital that Thompson had told Loudermilk that the select committee would turn over four terabytes of archived data, but that the new committee only received approximately two terabytes of data.
Fox News Digital has learned that Loudermilk's committee hired a digital forensics team to scrape hard drives to determine what information they were not given.
"As you acknowledged in your July 7, 2023 letter, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol did not archive all Committee records as required by House Rules," Loudermilk wrote to former chair Rep. Bennie Thompson.
Thompson "Claimed" to have "Turned over 4-terabytes of digital files, but the hard drives archived by the Select Committee with the Clerk of the House contain less than 3- terabytes of data," Loudermilk wrote.
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