The January 6th footage…
…should be interesting, at the very least. The authorities have certainly been secretive about the video evidence for two full years, releasing only what they think will advance the all-important insurrection narrative.
Tucker Carlson has said that some of the footage already reviewed “contradicts the narrative” we’ve been presented so far. I look forward to hearing more and deciding for myself.
One of the many many outrages connected with the political use made of January 6th are the lies that were told – for example, saying that demonstrators killed Officer Sicknick. Those lies have already served their propaganda purpose, and many people still don’t know they were lies. Most of those people, of course, will dismiss whatever Carlson may say and whatever the new footage may reveal, unless it is a perpetuation of the insurrection narrative.
Julie Kelly writes:
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…
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 h 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.
I wonder whether there will be a court battle to stop Carlson from reporting on the footage. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were.
Related:
Combating “Disinformation”(LOL!)…
(Alas their concerted campaign may well have been a glittering success…and so, closing the barn door after the cows have bolted?)
‘Disinformation index collapses after targeting conservative media content;
‘Among the “10 riskiest online news outlets,” according to the index, are the New York Post, Reason, and the Daily Wire – all popular conservative/libertarian sites.’—
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/disinformation-index-collapses-after-targeting-conservative-media-content
“National Endowment For Democracy To Cut Further Support For Global Disinformation Index” (Turley)—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/national-endowment-democracy-cut-further-support-global-disinformation-index
Related (2):
“Panic in the disco.”
“What Dems are doing….”
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1628129104674361378
Reduce the jurisdiction of the DC court to one square yard in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and pay its bloody judges once a year in potatoes. And fire every lawyer in the U.S. Attorney’s office in DC, debarring them from federal employment for life.
If there is a bright line that hasn’t yet been crossed, it is a court approving prior restraint of speech by a journalist. Thankfully that will not happen.
This might be a turning point in American history. I can only hope it is.
Will the January 6 prisoners and their lawyers have access to the footage?
Instead of giving the footage to Carlson it should be put online for anybody to see.
I’m with you, Mattsky!
The latest total Ive heard for the number of hours of surveillance video is 44,000. At eight hours per day, it would take 5,500 days to watch it all; at seven days a week, that’s a little over fifteen years. Assuming that each camera recorded all 24 hours on January 6, that would require 1,833 cameras (which is quite possible). I think facial recognition software will play a vital role in the examination.
I think it was wise to give Carlson access to the data. He will have the resources, and his team will have the skills, to give us an accurate analysis in a reasonable amount of time. Of course, the legacy media will seek to discredit Carlson’s efforts as “fake news” or “disinformation,” but most of us will believe our lyin’ eyes.
Some Lefties are already crying that releasing the footage will endanger national security. Maybe the FBI will raid FOX News and confiscate the footage before it can be aired because “national security”.
Indeed.
There are “things” we are not supposed to know. (That is, “things” like Democratic Party serial criminality and the attempts to cover up such criminality; and the attempts to cover up previous attempts to cover up such criminality, all the way down the road, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.)
Wanting to know these “things” makes the “curious ones” “Deplorable”, “Anti-American “Insurrectionists”.
IOW, National Security(TM) DICTATES that WE MUST COVER UP ALL OUR CRIMES!!…for the good of the country.
For the DEFENSE of our proud country.
For the LOVE of our dear country.
QED
DON’T YOU EVER try to unwrap the truth, son.
Cuz you’ll regret it.
And the last thing we wanna do is hurt you.
In fact, it’ll hurt us far more’n it’ll hurt you.
File under (speaking of “the road”): “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate…”
The LA Times was hysterical today, suggesting that there is some juicy material to be exposed. I would not be surprised at some effort by DoJ or the FBI to prevent Carlson from showing it. It was his earlier sample coverage of the J6 riot that cause Chris Wallace to quit Fox, a near fatal career move.
The corruption of the media and Deep State is astounding.
The elephant in the room is that there’s almost no chance that anyone involved in the debate on either side has actually viewed all of the footage, or even a small fraction of it. There’s just too much of it. Which means that none of them really know what they’re talking about.
Not that that’s ever mattered very much.
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