Representative Mike Johnson (R-L) has kept his promise by releasing all of the January 6th surveillance tapes to the public.
The recordings can now be found online in the CHA Subcommittee Reading Room. This decision marks a departure from the prior limited release and slow rolling by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
“Today, I am keeping my promise to the American people and making all the January 6th tapes available to ALL Americans,” wrote Johnson.
Follow the link below to view the January 6th tapes for yourself.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) November 17, 2023
To restore America’s trust and faith in their Government we must have transparency. This is another step towards keeping the promises I made when I was elected to be your Speaker.
This website will be updated…
On Friday, the Committee on House Administration (CHA) publicly launched the website containing the first batch of January 6 footage to the public.
Speaker Johnson issued the following statement:
When I ran for Speaker, I promised to make accessible to the American people the 44,000 hours of video from Capitol Hill security taken on January 6, 2021. Truth and transparency are critical. Today, we will begin immediately posting video on a public website and move as quickly as possible to add to the website nearly all of the footage, more than 40,000 hours. In the meantime, a public viewing room will ensure that every citizen can view every minute of the videos uncensored.
This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials.
I commend Chairman Loudermilk and his team for their diligent work to ensure the thousands of hours of videos are promptly processed to be uploaded to the committee’s public website. Processing will involve blurring the faces of private citizens on the yet unreleased tapes to avoid any persons from being targeted for retaliation of any kind and segregating an estimated 5% of the videos that may involve sensitive security information related to the building architecture.
Never before seen before footage shows protesters peacefully walking through the halls of Congress, contrary to what the media will tell you:
The police facilitated January 6th
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) November 17, 2023
This is why they withheld the tapes
The J6 committee should be censured and expelled for lying to the public
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BREAKING: In this never-before-seen footage of the January 6th insurrection, you can see capitol police officers fighting for their lives as the violent insurrectionists endanger American democracy in real-time pic.twitter.com/DDqPWafrHI
— George (@BehizyTweets) November 17, 2023
You can view the videos here.
Follow the link below to view the January 6th tapes for yourself.
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) November 17, 2023
To restore America’s trust and faith in their Government we must have transparency. This is another step towards keeping the promises I made when I was elected to be your Speaker.
This website will be updated…
