The integrity and transparency of the Democratic-led January 6 select committee had been in question ever since it was formed, and recent events prove there's good reason to raise questions.

According to JustTheNews, House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on January 6 Chairman Barry Loudermilk, who was picked to chair the subcommittee by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), wrote in a letter that the Dem-led original committee withheld critical videos and testimony.

Loudermilk sent letters to several businesses and Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting over 1 terabyte of data that reportedly wasn't turned over.

The new select subcommittee was created and approved by House Republicans earlier this year.

What's going on?

Video footage and documents, about a terabyte's worth, were not turned over as it should have been, according to what Loudermilk claimed in the letters.

"Former January 6th Select Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson conceded that he withheld footage of witness interviews and depositions," Loudermilk wrote. "To date, Representative Thompson has failed to account for the missing footage and data."

Loudermilk made clear in the letters that his committee wants the data to be turned over in a reasonable frame of time.

JustTheNews noted:

The letters request the institutions, including the Department of Justice, the University of Virginia and Broadcast Management Group, among others, produce the same documents and information it provided to the previous select committee by Oct. 2.

The chairman explained that the data is critical to establishing proof that the original J6 committee was formed in order to hurt President Donald Trump's election chances.

“This is an important first step in unraveling the predetermined narrative the former January 6th Select Committee crafted to hurt President Donald J. Trump," Loudermilk said in a news release.

He added, "Why else would their committee delete or fail to properly archive more than a terabyte of data? I look forward to uncovering the rest of the missing data and providing the American people with a complete and accurate report on the events surrounding January 6, 2021, and the partisan investigation that followed.”

Social media reacts

The official committee X account posted a press release regarding the request.

🚨BREAKING🚨: Chairman Loudermilk sent letters to Attorney General Pam Bondi, the University of Virginia and several businesses that were contracted by the former January 6th Select Committee requesting the more than one terabyte of missing data. https://t.co/UghHdvCfgT pic.twitter.com/MCfvwZaLuQ

— Select Subcommittee on January 6th (@J6Select) September 18, 2025

"Isn’t it a crime to destroy evidence and documents? What is penalty for that?" one X user wrote.