Republicans on the House Administration Committee asked the U.S. Capitol Police to publish the video after the House committee probing the riot asked Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) to speak with detectives about footage of a tour he led on January 5, 2021.
Loudermilk has renounced that the tour group had any reference to the riot.
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The letter to the Capitol Police Board from Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL), the Administration panel’s ranking member, dismissed the idea of reconnaissance tours and said Republicans have also studied the tapes and found no evidence of such tours.
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“Committee Minority staff have reviewed all footage in question and have confirmed no ‘reconnaissance tours’ occurred,” Davis said in a letter from February. “If the board hopes to preserve a reputation as an unbiased security agency and re-establish itself as a non-partisan entity, there is no alternative but to release the tapes. If the Board does not release the relevant footage promptly, I will have no choice but to exercise my authority under 2 U.S.C. § 1979 to release the footage myself.”
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Receiving and publishing the footage will likely come at a cost. According to the Hill, buying a hard drive big enough to support the hundreds of hours of video footage would cost almost $20,000, which obtained the letter.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) and other Democratic members of Congress claimed to see suspicious activity in the Capitol on January 5.
“Many of the Members who signed this letter, including those of us who have served in the military and are trained to recognize suspicious activity, as well as various members of our staff, witnessed an extremely high number of outside groups in the complex on Tuesday, January 5.”
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Sherrill wrote in a letter to the Capitol Police last year. “The visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day. … The presence of these groups within the Capitol Complex was indeed suspicious.”
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Loudermilk backed the tour he made, claiming it had nothing to do with the riot. A pro-Trump crowd charged the Capitol complex and disrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
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“A constituent family with young children meeting with their Member of Congress in the House Office Buildings is not a suspicious group or ‘reconnaissance tour,’” he said in a joint statement with Davis. “The family never entered the Capitol building.”
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