Posted on 12/05/2023 7:58:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that his plans to release all security footage from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol have been delayed because Republicans are blurring faces to protect participants.
“We have to blur some of the faces of persons who participated in the events of that day, because we don't want them to be retaliated against and be charged by the DOJ,” Johnson told reporters Tuesday, adding that he still wants to release those tapes “as quickly as we can.”
More than 1,200 people have been charged in the attack and more than 700 of those have pleaded guilty.
Johnson said not blurring the faces of those who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 could cause them “other concerns and problems.” It is “a slow process,” he said, but additional staff have been hired to work on the alterations and ultimately release the 44,000 hours of footage.
“We want the American people to draw their own conclusions. I don't think partisan elected officials in Washington should present a narrative and expect that it should be seen as the ultimate truth,” said Johnson.
They’re blurring the faces to not identify the feds in the crowd.
The correction to the mangled statement has already been made.
They are blurring the faces to make sure WE cannot identify the feds!
The DOJ aready has the tapes, so blurring facial images will not protect anyone from harrassment by the DOJ.
makes zero sense, since presumably the DoJ has access to all the tapes in raw form ...
I would concur.
The DOJ already has it all or the equivalent of it all. This is con reason. We all know what the real reason is.
I’m watching this play out I notice that Congressman Loudermilk of Georgia chairing the Administration Committee makes much of DC cops undercover that day.
DC cops under “Democrat” local gov’t control so the usual GOP “Demonize the Democrats Only” strategy.
The story of J6 is the Capitol Cops, the FBI and the DHS.
Unless those agencies and their agents, informants involvement in J6 is fully revealed to the world what Johnson is doing is a farce.
Let the chips fall where they may.
and this DOJ works for whom, again?
Lying SOB Bump fo PC.
Exactly.
They really think we are stupid, don’t they?
They should be going after the corrupt DOJ instead.
And finding the faces of the traitors who set up all the Jan 6 participants.
I have to agree.
What a wretched state of affairs we are in to have reached that point in our nations history.
You could very well be right. I’ve seen some web citizen Exposés where fed faces were tracked in various video and image shots. I’m sure there are plenty of more data that could significantly support future efforts by those (and other) citizen investigators.
The reasoning about ‘keeping the protestors’ from additional harassment, etc. wouldn’t stop this government; they already have the tapes and videos. It would only be a valid action IF it kept other non-government leftists from going vigilante.
> The DOJ aready has the tapes, so blurring facial images will not protect anyone from harrassment by the DOJ.
Exactly. This is all to protect the Feds from The People.
Infuriating.
The faces that are blurred will be the feds. So far we know at least 200 were fbi agents.
Waiting for a deep stater to say “Better to let 99 traitors get away than to convict an innocent man.”
“They’re blurring the faces to not identify the feds in the crowd.”
Exactly!
Speaker Mike Johnson Is a fraud, and he thinks we are idiots.
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