As 2023 got underway, and the new Republican majority in the House got to work, among the earliest priorities for the party was a new, GOP-friendly investigation into the Jan. 6 attack. The endeavor would be led by Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk, in his capacity as the chair of the House Administration’s subcommittee on oversight, who faced some awkward questions about a controversial Capitol tour the day before the riot.
After launching his own Jan. 6 probe, among the Georgia Republican’s first steps was exonerating himself.
Nearly a year later, he’s apparently still at it. Fox News reported over the weekend:
The House investigation into “what really happened” on January 6, 2021, is entering a “new phase,” Fox News Digital has learned, with Rep. Barry Loudermilk leading the charge and vowing to bring “the truth” to the American people. Loudermilk, R-Ga., the chairman of the House Administration Committee’s Oversight Subcommittee, told Fox News Digital that his investigation, which began under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, is expanding with the support of House Speaker Mike Johnson.
According to Loudermilk, the House speaker has “basically tripled” the number of people working on the party’s new investigation of the Jan. 6 attack.
This, of course, is the same House speaker who told reporters last month that he’s releasing Jan. 6 security camera footage with blurred faces in order to shield potential criminals from legal accountability.
As for the idea that a partisan assessment of Jan. 6, overseen by far-right House Republicans, will let the public know “what really happened,” some skepticism is in order — in part because radical conspiracy theorists are not reliable sources of accurate information, and in part because we already know what really happened.
But just as notable is what, exactly, this “new phase” of the GOP investigation might entail. Loudermilk and his team issued this press statement last week:
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