Harold Pease, Ph.D.
The January 6 Select Committee was required by law to preserve and turn over ALL DATA related to its probe at the end of the congressional term to the incoming Republican House Administration Oversight Subcommittee. “Nothing was indexed. There was no table of contents… Usually when you conduct this level of investigation, you use a database system and everything is digitized, indexed. We got nothing like that. We just got raw data,” said Rep.Barry Loudermilk, chair of the new subcommittee. “So it took us a long time going through it and one thing I started realizing is we don’t have anything much at all.”
For most Americans the reason for the Committee was to investigate the actual breach itself which was mostly ignored. This, as it turns out, would have required investigating themselves. This confirms the suspicion that the January 6 Committee was mostly created and weaponized as a tribunal to “get Trump” and the materials missing were to remove incrimination evidence as to that intent (“House Jan. 6 committee failed to preserve records, lacks data, says Barry Loudermilk,” Just the News, August 10, 2023).
We’ve known for two years that January 6 was a FBI insurrection planned a year prior to the event and had little to do with patriots walking through the doors of the Capital. This was caused and orchestrated by the FBI and the Deep State. Rasmussen Reports that 2/3rds of all voters want Congress to investigate the 2020 riots, (Twitter, now X, September 13, 2023, X 22 Reports, hereafter not cited, Ep. 3162b, Sept. 13, 2023, 46:00).
How can this weaponization not be intentional? On November 30, 2022, before disbandment of the Select Committee, Speaker Kevin McCarthy demanded that the January 6 Committee preserve all records and vowed to hold hearings the next year. The Committee defied the request (Ep. 3136b, Aug. 10, 2023, 44:24). Isn’t deletion or making evidence hard to find obstruction of justice? Why isn’t the Department of Justice investigating the Committee? Would they be OK if those they investigate hid evidence? No!
When it was learned that the Select Committee, before disbandment in early January, manipulated or destroyed their evidence, Trump asked, “How do you have an indictment that is based almost entirely on the finding of the January 6 Committee …who purposely and illegally DESTROYED AND DELETED all the Evidence, Findings, and Proof of the January 6th Committee? (Ep. 3150b, August 28, 2023, 55:41). He argued that in dropping the evidence the fake indictments must also be dropped—for lack of evidence.
Why would the Committee do this? With the accused, Trump, now having subpoena powers, they did not want their evidence to assist him and witness against them. They did not want to get caught. If nothing digital is really ever lost, can retrieved information come back to bite them? They must have feared the release of their own records without omissions or redactions—otherwise, why go to all the trouble? No one hides evidence that helps them.
We have presented the documentation in previous columns over the past nearly four years that January 6, was a fedsurrection caused by the Deep State “a set up” to entrap Trump and his MAGA followers. The constant drip of evidence to this understanding has been such that an April 2023 Rasmussen Poll “found 65% believed intel agencies helped provoke the J6 riot” (Ep. 3137b, August 11, 2023, 53:39). And that “62% believe the 2020 presidential election was rigged” (Ep. 3140b, August 15, 2023, 1:06:35). “Neither Jack Smith nor Fani Willis’ indictments charge Trump with inciting the January 6th riot… So what is the crime” (Ibid. 48:38)?
Meanwhile, the Deep State continues to persecute the January 6 political prisoners. At least one, Ryan Samsel has been held in prison without trial since January 2021. Two photos of him were smuggled out showing his harsh living quarters, a cell about 4 by 8 feet, guessing from the photos. In both he is lying or sitting on a thin blue workout mat on a concrete floor. One photo has him naked, a second in shorts. There existed a bucket toilet but no sink, cot, pillow, sheets, or blankets. In the corner water appears to be available for some kind of sponge bathing–shamefully little more (Ep. 3142b, August 17, 2023, 42:52). Respecting him certainly the Democrats are in violation of Amendments 1 “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances”; 5 and 14 “due process of law;” Amendment 6 “the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury;” and Amendment 8 “cruel and unusual punishment inflicted.” The January 6 political prisoners face a new justice system, “Prove your innocence”—no longer innocent until proven guilty.
But a change is on the horizon beginning in 13 months. To a packed crowd at the Pray Vote Stand summit, September 15, 2023 in Washington, DC, carried live by Newsmax, Trump promises a Task Force to review everyone’s case. He said, “Under Biden people are being prosecuted for their political views.” He mentioned “five pro-life activist individuals convicted for 11 years for simple acts of protest. Under Biden, others are being sentenced to 10, 15, even 20 years in prison for retribution for their political beliefs, while Antifa and other groups burn down cities, like Portland, like Minneapolis, and took over Seattle. They kill, loot, plunder, and then they go free. The political repression is immoral, and very very un-American…. To reverse these cruel travesties of justice tonight I am announcing at the moment I win the election the creation of a Task Force to review everyone’s case.” [Thunderous 20 seconds of applause.]
At the very moment he wins the election, Trump will appoint a Task Force to rapidly review the cases of every political prisoner that has been unjustly prosecuted by the Biden administration. He wants to sign their pardons or computations on day one (Ep. 3165b, Sept. 17, 2023, 53:50).
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column # 733.
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