House Republicans Issue A Truly Absurd Report Re January 6

The House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, also known as the Rep. Barry Loudermilk Sedition Funtime Revue,  released its "INITIAL FINDINGS REPORT" on Monday, attempting to refute the conclusions of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. And yes, the title is in all-caps; I'm not making that up.

Readers, it is not pretty. Beyond being mostly incoherent, it's not so much an attempt to discredit the Jan. 6 committee as it is a grab bag of odd and often petty complaints—the tried-and-true "spaghetti on the wall" approach to report-crafting. 

Among the more revealing sections is one insisting that "OVER ONE TERABYTE" of data was missing from the digital files that the Jan. 6 committee handed over to Loudermilk and his little subcommittee, along with accusations of "deleted" and "encrypted files.” But the killer line of the section is supposed to be Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the Jan. 6 committee, telling Loudermilk that he had "absolutely no idea what you are talking about."

I promise you that "I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about" is a sentence Barry Loudermilk has heard quite often in his life.

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