Posted on 02/21/2023 5:42:25 AM PST by MtnClimber
Like all good political scandals, the path to the truth begins with the tapes.
Tucker Carlson now has the equivalent of nearly five years of surveillance footage captured by U.S. Capitol Police security cameras on January 6, 2021. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) turned over the tapes to the Fox News host earlier this month, according to Axios. Carlson’s producers and researchers are already distilling the footage; the first round of clips is expected to air in a few weeks.
While some grumble that McCarthy did not fulfill his promise to publicly release the footage—arguably a valid complaint—Carlson’s team undoubtedly will give the massive trove much-needed context and maximum impact. Carlson released a three-part documentary, “Patriot Purge,” in November 2021 that explained how the events of January 6 helped launch a second “war on terror” against American citizens out of step with the Biden regime.
Since early 2021, Carlson has used his nightly show to expose the cruel treatment of Trump supporters suffering pretrial detention orders; raised questions about the use of undercover assets including FBI informants and the mysterious role of Ray Epps; asked why the case of the January 5 “pipe bomber” remains unsolved; and demanded the release of the surveillance video as late as last month.
Releasing the video never should have been a political fight; after all, the footage was recorded on a taxpayer-paid closed circuit television system installed on public property to monitor public employees. Contrary to arguments by Capitol Police and the Justice Department, the video belongs to the public, not federal agencies.
But both entities, with the help of D.C. District Court judges, have successfully kept the trove largely under wraps for more than two years. Even the FBI and D.C. Metropolitan Police departments signed agreements a few days after the Capitol protest to acknowledge that the tapes technically belonged to Capitol Police.
In a sworn statement filed in March 2021, Thomas DiBiase, general counsel for the Capitol Police, insisted the footage constituted “security information” that required very limited access. “Our concern is that providing unfettered access to hours of extremely sensitive information to defendants who already have shown a desire to interfere with the democratic process will . . . [be] passed on to those who might wish to attack the Capitol again,” DiBiase warned.
The Justice Department subsequently designated the tapes as “highly sensitive” government material subject to protective orders in January 6 prosecutions. It’s been a major battle for defendants and their attorneys to properly access all of the video tied to their cases; defendants cannot watch any clips without the presence of a legal authority and none of the footage can be shared or downloaded.
Of course, there have been some exceptions. Capitol Police shared cherry-picked clips with the House Democrats on the second impeachment committee as well as the January 6 select committee. For example, the brief clip of Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) running through a hallway that afternoon presumably after the breach was produced from surveillance video. HBO also accessed surveillance footage for its slanted documentary on January 6. “Security” concerns, my foot.
Imagine the universal outrage in any other situation had crucial video of what the government considered a terror attack been kept away from the public for more than two years. Influential opinion pages would have banged the drum incessantly for its release, insisting some sort of cover up was unfolding. Progressive activist groups and elected officials would demand a full accounting of what happened before, during, and after the “attack,” including all government-produced evidence. Influential lawyers and legal defense funds would lament the deprivation of due process for those involved in the allegedly heinous act.
Instead, the usual defenders of accountability, transparency, and constitutional rights have been completely AWOL. The fight has been waged by outmatched defense attorneys in the rigged legal and judicial system in the nation’s capital. And a handful of influencers like Carlson.
To be fair, a consortium called the Press Coalition forced a few federal judges to lift protective orders on a small amount of surveillance video. Representing more than a dozen major news companies, the coalition successfully won the release of limited security footage that, in some instances, contradicted the assertion that police did not allow protesters into the building that afternoon. Unsealed video also showed how police brutalized women inside the lower west terrace tunnel.
In a laughable “reality check” in his article, Axios reporter Mike Allen suggested the public has seen enough surveillance video since the “Jan. 6 committee played numerous excerpts of the footage at last year’s captivating hearings.” But not only were most of the evidentiary video clips sourced from protesters’ cell phones, the surveillance video clips offered by the committee represented an infinitesimal sliver of the total collection.
Which, notably, is much bigger than what the government has made available to January 6 defendants. Axios reported that Carlson’s team has 41,000 hours of raw footage—nearly three times the amount that the Justice Department allowed into evidence, which only covered the time period between noon and 8:00 p.m. on January 6. The tapes now in Carlson’s possession apparently covers the entire 24-hour period from “multiple camera angles from all over Capitol grounds.”
One can only guess what the videos will reveal. It’s possible, even likely, the never-before-seen footage will show the elements of a preplanned attack engineered by the same political and government forces that attempted to destroy Donald Trump for the better part of six years. Will the tapes finally answer the questions that top law enforcement officials such as FBI Director Christopher Wray refuse to answer and the January 6 select committee buried—not the least of which was the role of the FBI?
Withholding the video is only one part of the massive cover-up about January 6. Republicans should seek similar demands for records, emails, and communications from Capitol Police to expose the full scope of the cover-up. But like all good political scandals, the path to the truth begins with the tapes.
Who built the gallows?
“semantics, tomato, tomato”
Alex Jones failed to properly state his claims and it will cost him dearly.
The left wants to pretend that we are fools. Do not provide the leftists with any misinformation ‘ammo’.
I’d be more than happy to lend a hand - as long as I could stock around and watch.
Who is Ray Epps?
“What makes us think we have all the tapes now?”
There are two major types of tapes: of the entrances and of violent activity locations.
Any gaps would indicate the ghost of Rose Mary Woods roams in DC.
What if the McCarthy team took out IMPORTANT parts!
“Letting Mr. Noir vote and then allowing two fake ballots to be tossed into the process effectively disenfranchises Mr. Noir.”
Disenfranchising mr Noir effectively takes his vote away... or steals his vote. vote being not the actual ballots but his “vote” as in his say. semantics.
sometimes we cannot see the forest because of all the trees.
“SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE
JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE U.S. CAPITOL,
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D.C.”
“INTERVIEW OF: RAY EPPS”
“one of the addresses that we do not live at received five ballots — well, no — received three ballots, and we received two ballots at our location, at our — our address”
“Those three ballots, we had never — we’ve owned the property for now 12 years. We never heard of the people that — that were on the ballots. My wife actually told the mail carrier to keep one of them and send it back. The other two she got, and she tore them up, and she threw them in the trash”
“Disenfranchising Mr. Noir effectively takes his vote away... or steals his vote. vote being not the actual ballots but his “vote” as in his say. semantics.”
The people on the right need to be exactly right.
Do not propagate incorrect information or incorrectly stated claims.
There is an ongoing war of words. Accuracy is important.
Don Adams as Maxwell Smart: “Missed it by that much”
Here’s one place we can start. With the video inside the capitol covering Harry Dunn. Let’s see if his testimony was true or perjury:
As pro-Trump insurrectionists poured into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a Black Capitol Police officer passionately testified Tuesday that he faced racist epithets, the likes of which he had never heard while serving in uniform.
“You hear that, guys, this n***** voted for Joe Biden!” a woman in a pink MAGA shirt yelled toward Capitol Police Pfc. Harry Dunn, he recounted, after Dunn said he voted for President Biden.
“Boo! F****** n*****!” the crowd of about 20 yelled back, Dunn recalled.
Dunn said his story wasn’t unique. He heard from another Black officer that insurrectionists yelled at that officer: “Put your gun down, and we’ll show you what kind of n***** you really are!”
one cannot be exactly right, when the other refuses to understand and grasps the literal meaning and not the actual intended meaning.
only a big ugly ape would do that...
and i hope i didn’t step out of line with that “big ugly ape” line.
homage to don adams.
Maybe, but the Capitol Police should want to know that information so they can shore up the weak points.
But I think we all know that's not their real objection. Their real objection is that the tapes will show just how peaceful and nonviolent, overall, the "insurrection" was.
Just remember, Tucker will only show what his corporate masters will allow him to show.
We’re never going to see the “tapes.” Cucker Tarlson is going to cleanse them.
I hope it shows who opened the magnetically locked doors, that had to be an inside job and done deliberately.
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That.
Don’t even need videos of it .
It
Happened.
What the Left has done is CREATE the need for it.
Pelosi et al must have intended to mow everybody down that day. Now, they’re doing it in slow mo.
... after all, the footage was recorded on a taxpayer-paid closed circuit television system installed on public property to monitor public employees. Contrary to arguments by Capitol Police and the Justice Department, the video belongs to the public, not federal agencies.
The federal judges who have presided over the confinements should be impeached for withholding potentially exculpatory evidence from the defendants. The government’s refusal to deliver the tapes to defense lawyers should have been enough to have had the charges dismissed with prejudice.
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