WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Exposes Democrat-Run Jan. 6th 'Unselect' Committee That Defied Speaker McCarthy To Cover Their Tracks

Acting in apparent, direct defiance of orders from incoming Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), The House Select Committee to Investigate the Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021, did not preserve its records and video footage according to reports released earlier this week. Any data that was maintained was badly disorganized and much of it seems to have been deliberately destroyed.

The committee, derisively referred to as the 'Unselect' Committee or the 'Faux Jan. 6th Committee' due to then-Speaker Pelosi's violation of House Rules in its creation, did not include any Republican members nominated by House GOP leadership. Instead two 'token' anti-Trump Republicans, former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), joined the otherwise heavily biased all-Democrat panel. Both representatives lost their seats following participation in the committee, Cheney was defeated by Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) and Kinzinger declined to run, lacking meaningful support.

According to Fox News, the committee "failed to adequately preserve documents, data and video depositions." Troublingly the destroyed documents are thought to contain all communications between the Committee and the Biden White House the outlet said citing Rep. Barry Loudermilk, (R-GA) who chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration. The subcommittee has been tasked with investigating the committee which was disbanded after Republicans took control of the House. 

Loudermilk revealed to Fox News that the committee failed to provide any evidence that the committee ever looked into the security failures at the Capitol on January 6th. He stated that his staff has had a difficult time assembling the information necessary to investigate the actions of the Democrat-run committee.

"Part of our task as this oversight subcommittee is to actually address the security failures, look into how did it happen… how were these folks able to get into the Capitol," he explained.

"Nothing was indexed. There was no table of contents index. 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," he said. "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 from the Blue Team."

The "Blue Team" Loudermilk described was a group within the committee ordered to investigate the security failures that occurred at the Capitol leading up to and during the riot. The congressman told Fox that this team was basically "shut down" by the committee when the decision was made to focus on implicating the 45th President Donald J. Trump.

"We've got lots of depositions, we've got lots of subpoenas, we've got video and other documents provided through subpoenas by individuals. But we're not seeing anything from the Blue Team as far as reports on the investigation they did looking into the actual breach itself," Loudermilk added. "What we also realized we didn't have was the videos of all the depositions."

In a series of letters the chair of the disgraced commit Rep. Bernie Thompson (D-MS) claimed that the committee had turned over 4 terabytes of data, while Loudermilk refuted this and stated his committee only received 2.5 terabytes and that a footnote from Thompson confirmed the committee fully admitted they did not retain data they were required to by law.

In the footnote, Thompson claimed, "the Select Committee was not obligated to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions. Based on guidance from House authorities, the Select Committee determined that the written transcripts provided by nonpartisan, professional official reporters."

"He's saying they decided they didn't have to," Loudermilk told Fox News Digital. "It was clear in law they had to especially and, I mean, if there was any question, the fact that they used the videos in the hearings would dictate that it had to be preserved. The more we go in the more we're realizing that there's things that we don't have. We don't have anything about security failures at the Capitol, we don't have the videos of the depositions."

"We're looking at the security failure at the Capitol and we're looking at how the January 6 committee operated itself and right now we're having so much trouble with the January 6 committee and how it operated that It's really impending our ability to investigate thoroughly the security failures at the Capitol," Loudermilk concluded.