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Title: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: mystery-ak on March 14, 2024, 09:21:25 pm
House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution

Joel B. Pollak 14 Mar 2024


House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said Wednesday that he may refer members of the January 6 Committee to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution for hiding and destroying documents.

Loudermilk has been investigating the work of the January 6 Committee, and discovered last year that the Committee had destroyed documents and other records, despite being warned by then-incoming Speaker of the House Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to preserve all of the evidence it had collected in months of investigations and closed-door testimony.

He told John Solomon of JusttheNews.com that it was possible members of the committee could face prosecution:

    The House Republican leading the current review of security and intelligence failures during the 2021 Capitol riot put former lawmakers and staff on the now-defunct Democrat-run Jan. 6 committee on notice Wednesday that he may make referrals for criminal obstruction or House ethics violations.

    Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga,, the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Just the News he is frustrated that videotapes of interviews, transcripts and other evidence that Congress gathered under the prior Jan. 6 inquiry run by Democrats was deleted, destroyed, moved to other federal agencies or locked behind passwords that have not been recovered, and he believes some form of accountability is warranted.

    “As far as holding people accountable, yes, they should be,” Loudermilk said during an interview with Just the News, No Noise television show. “But I think that’s going to be a little ways down the road, because there is so much more information that we need to get. And we need to build not only this, to get the truth out to the American people, but see just how big this case potentially is for obstructing.”

Loudermilk said that censure or ethical sanctions could also be applied instead of prosecution, given the immunity that members of Congress often enjoy regarding their work due to the separation of powers under the U.S. Constitution.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/14/house-may-refer-january-6-committee-members-for-prosecution/
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: Weird Tolkienish Figure on March 14, 2024, 09:40:25 pm
Payback's a bitch.
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: rustynail on March 14, 2024, 09:47:38 pm
"to the(Biden) Department of Justice"
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: PeteS in CA on March 14, 2024, 10:20:37 pm
The chances the LIEden InJustice Department will lift a finger - except to shitcan the referral - are somewhere in the neighborhood of zero and none.
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 14, 2024, 10:40:23 pm
The chances the LIEden InJustice Department will lift a finger - except to shitcan the referral - are somewhere in the neighborhood of zero and none.
Doesn't that eventually make them accessories after the fact?

Justice wields a two edged sword.
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: Hoodat on March 15, 2024, 12:53:47 am
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    Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga,, the chairman of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, told Just the News he is frustrated that videotapes of interviews, transcripts and other evidence that Congress gathered under the prior Jan. 6 inquiry run by Democrats was deleted, destroyed, moved to other federal agencies or locked behind passwords that have not been recovered

This is called 'Obstruction of Justice'.
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: DefiantMassRINO on March 15, 2024, 01:15:35 am
How's that Fiscal Year 2024 Budget coming along?  It's only 5 months late.
Title: Re: House May Refer January 6 Committee Members for Prosecution
Post by: Smokin Joe on March 15, 2024, 01:51:33 am
This is called 'Obstruction of Justice'.
Not to mention "tampering with or destruction of evidence"

this ain't global warming...