House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised to release more than 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6 to the public, with one major caveat: The faces of some individuals who participated in the storming of the Capitol, a violent attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election, will be blurred out.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson said that “the release of the January 6 tapes is a critical and important exercise, we want transparency … we trust — House Republicans trust — the American people to draw their own conclusions.”

Johnson added that the party is going “through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can” and that they “have to blur some of the faces of the 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 and to have other, you know, concerns and problems.”

  • MacN'Cheezus
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    41 year ago

    I’ve been here for 17 years, politics has pretty much always been a shit show.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I’ve been here 13, and just tried to get into politics a couple of years ago, and man do I hate it and find it very messy. Im now questioning my decision to get involved. I was a much happier person before.

      • prole
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        1 year ago

        Ignorance is bliss.

        Edit: if it’s not clear, I’m not saying it’s good