Justice Department reveals it has Jan. 6 select committee files that the panel opted not to release to the public.
Prosecutors say the 30GB of unreleased documents include “voluminous” disclosures by committee witnesses.
After dumping a massive trove of records on the public in the final days of December, the Jan. 6 select committee still hasn’t disclosed 30 gigabytes’-worth of more evidence, prosecutors revealed in a Thursday court filing.
The evidence was appended to the committee’s 255 witness transcripts, Justice Department prosecutors wrote in the four-page filing, noting that while the transcripts have been publicly revealed, the accompanying exhibits “do not appear to have been released publicly.”
Those exhibits include “voluminous” disclosures made by committee witnesses, DOJ noted. Prosecutors’ review of the materials “is ongoing,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Rakoczy added.
Notable omissions: The panel’s apparent decision not to make significant swaths of its evidence public stands in stark contrast to repeated promises by members to release the overwhelming bulk of its material.
While the panel did release a significant subset of evidence in the mad-dash closing days of the last Congress, key pieces of evidence remain hidden from public view. And the panel can no longer release it; it was disbanded with the start of the new Congress, and its files have been transferred to the National Archives.
Among materials that have gone unreleased:
– Text messages from Ivanka Trump that the committee referenced in her interview
– Extensive text messages between White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and key figures in the Trump administration
– Text messages between a top Mike Pence aide and an aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), which the panel noted in one of its public hearings.
– The witness transcript of Secret Service Agent Robert Engel, despite suggesting that his testimony contradicted that of another key witness, Tony Ornato.
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NEW: The Jan. 6 committee gave the Justice Department 30GB of evidence that it hasn't released publicly, prosecutors indicated in a court filing connected to the Oath Keepers.
The public may never see it.https://t.co/OJHh8r7GbA
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 12, 2023
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