The House subcommittee investigating former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)'s partisan Jan. 6 special committee “interrogated hundreds of witnesses,” but the most notorious of Pelosi's hearings Starr's testimony is conspicuously absent from the report.
The subcommittee chaired by Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) issued the following statement: interim report Dec. 17, 2024 Pelosi calls former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchison “star witness on special committee.”
However, despite the subcommittee's “interviews”,[ing] There are hundreds of witnesses.''The commission's report mentions Hutchinson by name 268 times, but makes no mention of bringing him in for questioning.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) personally intervened to prevent the subcommittee from subpoenaing Hutchinson, the people said. In a statement to Breitbart News, Prime Minister Johnson called the claims “patently false.”
Mr. Breitbart criticized the subcommittee and Mr. Loudermilk's personal office, despite Mr. Hutchinson's prominence throughout the report and the subcommittee's thorough and thorough work. He asked why the subcommittee did not question Mr. Hutchinson. Mr. Breitbart also asked about Mr. Johnson's alleged interference in the subcommittee's activities, particularly when Mr. Johnson interfered with efforts to subpoena Mr. Hutchinson.
The subcommittee and Loudermilk's office did not respond.
Johnson's full statement to Breitbart denying blocking the subpoena also broke the news that the subcommittee will continue to operate until the next Congress, but that it will be “elevated” to full committee level.
Read Johnson's full statement regarding the Breitbart source's claims below:
This is clearly false. I have never blocked a subpoena and have no authority to do so. As Chairman, I have called for full transparency regarding the events of January 6th and the Democratic Party's fake J6 committee. I directed the House Oversight Subcommittee to make J6 video footage available to the American people and allocated approximately $2 million additionally to hire additional staff to conduct this important investigative work.
We are proud of the subcommittee's important work in exposing the false narratives and lies spread by the Democratic Party's J6 Committee. But there is still much work to do, so I will elevate the investigation from the subcommittee level to the full committee level, thereby giving full subpoena power. We look forward to House Republicans continuing this investigation and working with the incoming Trump administration, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, to fully expose the false and politically motivated J6 Committee.
The statement did not specify what role Loudermilk would play after the investigation is removed from the oversight subcommittee. Breitbart shared Johnson's statement via email with a subcommittee spokesperson for comment, including whether Johnson had informed the subcommittee that the committee would continue its work. Ta. A spokesperson did not respond.
As Johnson's statement implied, the subcommittee does not have unilateral authority to issue subpoenas. In the House, subcommittees typically must issue subpoenas with the cooperation of the full committee. Louder milk is said He would appreciate the independent subpoena power given to him by a select committee.
Asked whether the House Administration Committee or its chairman, Rep. Brian Still (R-Wis.), had ever blocked any attempt to subpoena Mr. Hutchinson, the subcommittee reported. Officials did not respond, and Breitbart is not aware of any efforts by Steil. To do so.
in him reportLoudermilk said one of the two conditions he had to meet before accepting the subcommittee assignment from then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) was that “the facts should be presented without political bias or outside influence.” “Having the autonomy and resources necessary to effectively pursue one's goals.”
“Mr. McCarthy has assured me that he will give us what we need to conduct a full-scale investigation and appropriate oversight,” Loudermilk said.
He continued:
At one point, the subcommittee's activities ceased entirely with the firing of Chairman Kevin McCarthy, and it subsequently faced internal efforts to derail the investigation. However, our team overcame the delay. And when Mike Johnson took the gavel as Speaker of the House, he committed to allocating more resources to our investigations and increasing transparency for the American people.
Although the Oversight Subcommittee has more resources and can expand its staff than most similarly constituted subcommittees, the subcommittee still operates under a full committee. It is limited by the constraint that
Loudermilk's work as subcommittee chairman has been widely praised by Republicans and even from Donald Trump himself.
President Trump praised Loudermilk on Sunday for his “great job” as chairman.
“Congratulations to Congressman Barry Loudermilk for his great work in exposing the massive corruption of the J6 Political Villains Committee!” he Posted I would also like to thank Mark Levin for improving many of Loudermilk's works. “We need more warriors like Barry and Mark to expose the massive corruption happening in our country!”
Hutchinson worked on the construction of the Capitol for then-Rep. When Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) became President Trump's chief of staff, he followed him to the White House. She held several relatively low-level positions, including as gatekeeper to Meadows, a role through which Hutchinson would have interacted with many members of Congress who sought time with Meadows.
Loudermilk's subcommittee accused Mr. Hutchinson of communicating with disgraced Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) without his lawyer's knowledge. The back-and-forth began after Mr. Hutchinson sat on the committee twice.
After Hutchinson and Cheney began communicating, Hutchinson returned to the committee and began introducing new claims, many of which were second-hand and later denied by those present. “Cassidy Hutchinson's most outrageous claims lack any evidence, and the task force found that her claims were false at the time she was publicly promoted,” Loudermilk wrote in the report. “I knew that,” he said.
“[T]”The Special Committee chose to focus its conclusions in its nearly 1,000-page report primarily on the uncorroborated and inconsistent testimony of one witness, Cassidy Hutchinson,” the report said. “Mr. Hutchinson gave Congressman Cheney and the other members of the special committee exactly what they wanted.”
Bradley Jay is Breitbart News' Capitol Hill correspondent. Follow him on X/Twitter. @BradleyAJay.
