Posted on 03/09/2023 9:14:02 AM PST by Signalman
After Fox News host Tucker Carlson aired Capitol surveillance footage this week exposing yet more falsehood from the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 and leaving Democrats and their media allies irate, the committee chair on Wednesday said the panel never actually analyzed the crucial footage.
On Monday’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox News aired the footage of the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, undermining the select committee’s narrative of a “deadly insurrection.” Given access to the video by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Carlson’s team reviewed over 40,000 hours of footage, which offered proof the committee manipulated audio and video to dramatize the riot for its made-for-TV hearings in an election year.
But in a Wednesday night statement to CNN, select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., claimed the panel never analyzed the blockbuster footage Fox News aired this week.
“I’m not actually aware of any member of the committee who had access,” Thompson said. “We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.”
Hiring investigators who “kind of went through the video” doesn’t sound like a very thorough investigation.
However, Thompson’s admission that his committee lacked due diligence makes no sense. Since when do lawmakers have no access to the same material as their own staffers? Did none of the nine panel members view the footage that was played for the cameras? Does Thompson not know who had access to the tapes? Was it just the former television executives they hired to produce their show trials? Either Thompson is lying and knows exactly who had access, or he handed the key to Vice Chair Liz Cheney and had nothing to do with it while the committee leaked exclusives to CNN.
Thompson’s office did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s inquiries.
The committee clearly had access to the footage Carlson aired this week that contradicted the panel’s key narratives. After all, members of the committee endlessly bragged about how many documents, more than 35,000, investigators reviewed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who used the committee to dodge responsibility for her own failure to secure the Capitol, just refused to make the tapes public — and after Carlson’s revelations, it’s clear why.
Carlson’s program showed that the man who became the face of the “insurrection,” known as the “QAnon Shaman,” was given VIP treatment by police. The tapes showed since-deceased Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick walking around “vigorously” after altercations with protesters who had allegedly murdered him. The footage also showed that mysterious rioter Ray Epps lied to congressional investigators about his whereabouts the day of the riot, yet the committee protected the “insurrectionist.”
On Monday, Carlson announced his team discovered proof that Democrats on Pelosi’s probe came across the same footage Fox made public.
“We can be sure because the footage contains an electronic bookmark that is still archived in the Capitol’s computer system,” said Carlson. “That means that investigators working for the Democratic Party saw this tape. They saw it, but they refused to release the tape to the public.”
Committee staffers even used some of the footage to show Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., allegedly fleeing the Capitol. All Carlson did was extend the footage a few seconds longer than what was televised in the committee’s show-trial hearings, and it became clear Hawley departed the Capitol along with other members of Congress. The clip published by the committee was always demonstrably dishonest.
Most of us in flyover figured out it was a Stalin style 'Show Trial'. If these same people had run the Murdaugh trial, the son's video with 'Daddy Psychopath's voice in the background' would NOT have been shown. These people were disgusting. I know now how 'good people' can allow horrors like lynchings and putting people in ovens happens. Disgusting liberals - disgusting Liz Cheney and what's his name jerk off.
“I’m not actually aware of any member of the committee who had access,” Thompson said. “We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.”
kind of ?????
malfeasance, criminal negligence, fraud by omission..etc...
Thompson is a liar.
and if repubs had not taken back the house i doubt the videos would be seen before heck froze over...
Thompson is a liar.
of course thats why they were screaming before tucker released the video..they knew.....
You’re right. This is an outrage.
I heard Tucker Carlson say that of the 40,000 hours the bulk of it was of empty rooms. They used a scanner that allowed them to skip those hours of nothing.
So, the Federal Effimg Government has put people for political reasons in prison for YEARS without reviewing the evidence. Sounds a bit Fascist to me.
If you watched Tucker Carlson's Monday night show, you'd know exactly how it was possible.
https://rumble.com/v2c2tua-tucker-carlson-tonight-full-episode-monday-march-6.html
"Our producers had unfettered access to the Capitol's surveillance video. Neither the Speaker's Office or our bosses at Fox News interfered in any with our investigation. Of the 40,000 or so hours of tape, most of it turned out to be irrelevant; static shots of empty rooms and some cases far from the Capitol itself. To find relevant videotape, our producers were given the use to Capitol computers with advanced mapping software that made it easy to find what we were looking for."
The staff investigation used the best Ouija boards money can buy!
Elected officials must be lazy and asleep at the wheel.
What about Elected Officials who refuse to follow the Constitution? Biden doesn’t follow the laws on the border.
His Democrat Party is guilty as sin.
“It’s important that Thompson or someone on the committee makes this claim because the footage is exculpatory evidence “
Too bad for him that it has their digital fingerprints all over it. Tucker knows exactly what they saw by the markers they left.
It would take a battalion to tackle “over 49,000 hours” of that video, unless.... it was a #1 priority for newly elected Speaker McCarthy, to mount a quiet congressional campaign to hire a battalion and unravel that Capitol Hill film, and ready its quicker distribution.
Is it possible McCarthy might have marked the miscellaneous or useless footage, in order for Tucker Carlson to expedite his review of people, faces and movements of the Real and solid evidence of behaviors and actions of everyone?
I read there were a multitude of long shots that identified no one, and angles of the Capitol where no one gathered. Idk, but agree with you about an unfathomable short time of access.
Fast Forward
Ah....the “no flies on me” defense. Such stupidity.
Stole a line from you for my tagline. thx
Anytime. ;-)
Today's version...
"when the story fits OUR narrative...embellish the lie and feed it to the masses"
"if the story DOESN'T fit OUR narrative...discredit it, bury it"
MSM has -0- credibility...unless you're a woke toad willing to eat the fly straight from the turd pile.
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