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.”

  • pl_woah
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    11 months ago

    I mean… The other part about internet sleuths is that it can help get these insurrectionists fired from their jobs.

    Unmasking someone (showing that they were at Jan 6) is different from doxxing them (their private deets).

    They should absolutely face consequences from multiple levels of society: legally, at work, online…

    These aren’t fine people to protect and encourage, they’re people who should be embarrassed