A House Republican tasked with pursuing previously unseen portions of witness testimony related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot accepted an offer from the White House to view the unredacted transcripts.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, said he would view the transcripts after months of requests, making him one of the first Republican members of Congress to see the contents, according to the Georgia lawmaker. The White House offered access to the House GOP under conditions that would maintain the anonymity of the witnesses and protect certain security details.

“While the White House granting access to these transcripts is a step in the right direction, I maintain these are House records and they should be returned in full,” Loudermilk said in a statement. “I agree that operational details and security information must be highly protected. However, the American people have a right to know the full truth, not just facts the Select Committee apparently cherry-picked and published online.”

It is not yet clear when Loudermilk will arrange the viewing, and a spokesperson from his office has not yet responded to a request for comment by the Washington Examiner.

After its monthslong investigation into the Capitol riot, the Jan. 6 select committee released most of its findings online for the public to view. However, investigators withheld a handful of transcripts from interviews with select White House aides and Secret Service officials that were instead sent to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security.

Although the White House has offered access to its unredacted transcripts, Loudermilk said he has not yet received a response from the DHS. A spokesperson for the department has not responded to a request for comment.

The White House’s offer to view the documents comes after months of tense back-and-forth between the administration and Loudermilk, who has led the House subcommittee investigating the work of the Democratic-led Jan. 6 committee since Republicans took over the House majority last year.

Those efforts have ramped up in recent days after Loudermilk threatened to subpoena the documents if they were not made available.

The White House agreed to make the transcripts available for review in camera, provided that members “agree in writing to abide by the commitments made on a bipartisan basis by the Select Committee — to maintain the anonymity of the four witnesses consistent with the conditions under which the witnesses agreed to appear before the Select Committee, and to prevent the disclosure of ‘operational details and private information,’” White House special counsel Richard Sauber wrote in a letter to Loudermilk last week.

The withholding of those documents was part of an agreement brokered between the Jan. 6 committee and select witnesses in exchange for their testimony. The committee justified that agreement by noting the witnesses’ responsibilities pertaining to national security and “security protocols in and around the White House.”

Instead, the committee has access to redacted portions of those interviews, which the White House has made available to Loudermilk, according to Sauber’s letter.

However, Republicans repeatedly have accused the Jan. 6 committee of redacting key information that would contradict some of the panel’s findings. That rhetoric escalated even further last week when Loudermilk threatened to subpoena not only the documents but also the Jan. 6 witnesses themselves. 

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Loudermilk went so far as to accuse Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who chaired the now-dissolved Jan. 6 committee, of improperly archiving committee data — claiming some items were deleted or encrypted or went missing.

Those accusations sparked a rebuke from Thompson, who accused his Republican colleague of attempting “to keep the January 6th conspiracy theories alive with your subcommittee’s misrepresentations and continued fishing expeditions, all in the service of your and Donald Trump‘s political interests.”