House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised to release more than 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6 to the public, with one major caveat: The faces of some individuals who participated in the storming of the Capitol, a violent attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election, will be blurred out.
In a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson said that “the release of the January 6 tapes is a critical and important exercise, we want transparency … we trust — House Republicans trust — the American people to draw their own conclusions.”
Johnson added that the party is going “through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can” and that they “have to blur some of the faces of the persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against, and to be charged by the DOJ and to have other, you know, concerns and problems.”
Wait, wouldn’t any tapes the congress have also already be in the hands of the FBI/DOJ? If not, where are the Republicans getting the videos from?
The DOJ definitely has the raw footage already. This is equal parts publicity stunt and trying to keep internet sleuths from getting too involved.
That coming from the same party that supports a guy who is famous for doxing people he wants to see in trouble.
Assholes.
Their hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug. We need to stop wasting time and energy pointing it out. They. Don’t. Care.
That’s a great point I hadn’t even thought of that.