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.”

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    1 year ago

    Which is it? A “peaceful protest by MAGA infiltratded by A Deep State/BLM/Antifa instigating a sedicious Riot” or “Need to blur faces to protect from the non-government retaliation”. If it’s the former, surely the GOP would not desire protection of the latter.

    Or should I just now start saying that the GOP led Congress is protecting Antifa/Deep State/BLM traitors? I’mma run with that one…

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      1 year ago

      GOP double think is nothing new. Guns can’t be regulated or considered dangerous, but books must be banned.

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      1 year ago

      Stop wasting time and energy pointing out conservative hypocrisy.

      They know. They don’t care. In fact, I suspect they do it on purpose to anger and frustrate people.