Rep. Barry Loudermilk, the Republican leading the House Administration Committee’s
oversight investigation, said his computer forensic investigators discovered 117 files deleted by the Jan. 6 committee. He is demanding former leaders of committee hand over passwords to the encrypted files. It’s the latest twist in a struggle between GOP investigators and the defunct Democratic-run committees’s former chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, about the whereabouts of video recordings of witness depositions, transcripts, and other missing records.