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Speaker Mike Johnson says he's blurring Jan. 6 footage so rioters don't get charged
NBC News ^ | 5 Dec 23 | Ryan J. Reilly

Posted on 12/06/2023 9:53:50 AM PST by seanmerc

Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that House Republicans are blurring footage from the Capitol attack before releasing it publicly because they don't want Jan. 6 rioters to be charged with crimes.

"We have to blur some faces of 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," Johnson said Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2020election; congress; j6; january6; mikejohnson; speakerjohnson
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To: Red Badger
How do you tell the ‘rioters’ from the FBI plants?

They have done the work for us. Just count the number of people who's faces are blurred and we can now count the number of agents who participated.

The deep state is not as bright as they think they are.

21 posted on 12/06/2023 10:21:47 AM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: seanmerc

Censorship is still censorship.

The FIB already has a clear copy of the videos. Is is all a crock of bull by Mike’s Johnson.


22 posted on 12/06/2023 10:22:18 AM PST by Dacula
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To: Pollard

“Yep, how else was the fbi able to dragnet 1,000 people already if they don’t already have the tapes?”

Phone tracking.


23 posted on 12/06/2023 10:22:42 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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To: seanmerc

huh? Sounds like a fake/stupid reason

The FBI has had almost 3 years to go after anyone and everyone they wanted, most of the time with the cooperation of Pelosi and the Dems in Congress.

He wants us to believe they will glean some new information from viewing released video????


24 posted on 12/06/2023 10:25:08 AM PST by PGR88
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To: seanmerc

Me thinks there was a deal struck. Blurred faces to protect informants and agents, in exchange for release of the video. He’s running cover for the fedbois.


25 posted on 12/06/2023 10:25:45 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
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To: Mathews

I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. Protecting the feds, not the patriots.


26 posted on 12/06/2023 10:27:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - WiersbeIIRC, )
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To: Pollard

“how else was the fbi able to dragnet 1,000 people already if they don’t already have the tapes?”

Geofencing.


27 posted on 12/06/2023 10:32:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - WiersbeIIRC, )
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To: seanmerc

Why? So FBI sponsored instigators will be protected,?


28 posted on 12/06/2023 10:36:04 AM PST by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed hit wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: Fido969

Why doesn’t someone call this guy on his bee ess?


Because he’s already corrected his statement, but the same headline is still going around.


29 posted on 12/06/2023 10:37:16 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: seanmerc

Mike Johnson texts me for cash every single day.

He’s not doing anything else as far as I know.

Jan 6 folks — STILL — left out in the cold.

Nobody gives a crap about them.

A POX on them all, Republican and Democrat — totally self indulged.


30 posted on 12/06/2023 10:41:46 AM PST by detch (")
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To: seanmerc

Deaar Speaker Mike; you can rest assured the FIB has unblurred copies, or will have them very soon. Please, it’s time to fully understand what we’re up against.


31 posted on 12/06/2023 10:43:46 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Fido969
The FBI already has the clear images.

This is an example of why the new speaker can not be trusted. He is directly lying to us.
32 posted on 12/06/2023 10:50:17 AM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: seanmerc
It is worse than just obscuring the Federal plants. Blurring faces makes the tapes useless for J6 defense lawyers!
33 posted on 12/06/2023 11:10:06 AM PST by the_Watchman
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To: seanmerc

He didn’t say “rioters” you media scum.


34 posted on 12/06/2023 11:17:58 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Red Badger
"How do you tell the ‘rioters’ from the FBI plants?................"

The FBI no doubt, have already edited those videos to remove or blur out their assets from Jan. 6th.

35 posted on 12/06/2023 11:28:31 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: the_Watchman

the ones waving and yelling go in, go in (to the capitol) are FBI. The ones with badges holding the doors open and escorting peaceful “insurrectionists” are cap cops. The ones walking between the ropes, taking photos, walking, and sitting behind desks are “insurrectionists.”


36 posted on 12/06/2023 11:31:21 AM PST by coalminersson (since )
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To: Fido969

It also now gives the media a reason to call anything they do not like doctored video.


37 posted on 12/06/2023 11:31:52 AM PST by pas
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To: seanmerc

What is worse than Mike Johnson doing nothing to release the J6 Tapes?

That would be in trying to con us about the reason he is not releasing them in a way that they can be used to prove anything. Playing us as gullible.


38 posted on 12/06/2023 12:01:30 PM PST by Revel
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To: Fido969

The FBI uses face recognition software to match up Jan 6 protesters with social media. But that only goes so far, since many of us don’t have pictures on the internet.

However, once the footage is released to the public, democrats can start turning in their neighbors and coworkers, etc., and don’t think they won’t do it.

If I was there that day, I’d want my face blurred. Just sayin’.


39 posted on 12/06/2023 12:15:23 PM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: albie
They’re law abiding US Citizens that were exercising their 2nd amendment right to assemble.

That's the First amendment, I believe.

40 posted on 12/06/2023 12:28:10 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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