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.
"So I was shocked to learn that they were lying intentionally," continued the Fox News host. "We have a very specific way of knowing that. ... January 6 committee researchers looked at video. They bookmarked it. They left an electronic mark on the video they watched. So we know what they watched. And then we watched it."
It requires no review if your entire conclusion is simply orange man bad
“Carlson’s team reviewed over 40,000 hours of footage” -— How was that possible in the short amount of time they had access?
Verdict first.
Evidence is an afterthought. Not really necessary.
It really becomes a Bill of Attainder if your legislative body is just nakedly out to get a particular person and skips any sort of due process.
Is Tucker Carlson really so naive that he is "shocked" to learn they were intentionally lying? How is it possible he can be so unaware of something so blatantly obvious?
So, it is the old AOC "blame the staff" gambit. Good luck with that.
“committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., claimed the panel never analyzed the blockbuster footage”
It’s important that Thompson or someone on the committee makes this claim because the footage is exculpatory evidence that was not shown in the trial that got the caveman guy four years jail time.
The prosecutors in that trial might be in serious trouble.
Clay and Buck are discussing this now.
What you are hearing, is the sound of staffers being thrown under the bus.
Yeah well he’s a LIAR..there is a digital footprint trail which shows that the video footage was viewed, so he can’t deny it..the whole purpose of that “committee” was to jail Trump supporters..thats it..they could care less about the truth
Why attack Carlson? Anyone else releasing the footage?
What’s worse, not watching any of the video when the purpose of the committee is to investigate 1/6 or watching all the video and lying about it .
No need to look at evidence that doesn’t fit the narrative!
Democrats ALWAYS lie its in their nature
-PJ
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.
They hold onto at least two diametrically opposed beliefs yet are oblivious to the contradictions.
They concurrently believe that they must do anything and everything they can to hold onto power and prevent Trump from returning to the White House (i.e., lie, cheat, steal, and probably even murder) AND that their solutions for America (grounded in the belief that America is a systemically racist country) are the only "moral" path forward.
Furthermore, the Left believes it can define its own reality (in opposition to ACTUAL reality) and this will somehow lead to a successful country and success at the individual level. This is tantamount to believing that you can jump out of an airplane with an umbrella instead of a parachute and drift gently and safely down to earth.
What the Left believes is sheer insanity...but they are unwilling to even consider that they might be wrong. I know because, like many of us, I have tried to discuss the above with family members and friends who are under this hypnotic spell. If you try to explain that teaching impressionable black children that "America has been rigged against them by white people" is not only untrue, but is going to lead to a race war, they just stare at you emptily...and then call you a racist.
I have tried to explain to some on the Left that most white people have absolutely no racist feelings toward anyone (black, yellow, brown, or pink), but they are unwilling to listen.
Frankly, I am coming to think that there is no solution to this problem. Dealing with the Left is like trying to convince a drug addict that they need to get treatment.
If any of you fellow Freepers have a solution, please share it with me.
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