Citing the urgency of the cause, House Speaker Mike Johnson reverses the decision to blur 5,000 hours of security footage regarding the January 6 demonstration.
In a statement, Johnson expressed, “Additionally, upon extensive further consultation with the Committee, and at my direction, the Committee will no longer plan to blur the faces of individuals in the footage given the significant logistic hurdles involved and the importance of getting this work completed as responsibly and efficiently as possible.”
Furthermore, the House Speaker commended House Administration Committee Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-Georgia) for his commitment ensuring to the delivery of the truth surrounding the events of January 6.
“This ongoing work is especially necessary considering the deeply flawed prior investigation conducted by the partisan January 6 select committee, which instead of delivering transparency, has contributed to defendants, public interest groups, and the media having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials,” said Johnson.
Subcommittee Chairman Loudermilk seconded Johnson’s statement and emphasized his committee’s commitment to providing the public with full transparency and accountability surrounding the events that transpired on January 6.
“As such, we have been working tirelessly to make public all U.S. Capitol Police CCTV footage from that day,” Loudermilk said.
The first batch of the footage was released on Friday at the Committee on House Administration rumble page. The rest of the footage, all 40,000 hours of them, will be available in the next eight weeks.
The Georgia lawmaker highlighted that “today’s release is a critical step forward in our effort to uncover the truth.”
Additionally, this move is in response to the recent arrest of The Blaze’s investigative journalist Steve Baker, who recently exposed the FBI’s Pipe Bomb Hoax.
Blaze Media shared a video of Baker, who was handcuffed and led by two FBI agents into a car.
The FBI has been targetting the journalist, accusing him of being involved with the violence that transpired on January 6.
However, Baker emphasized that although he was present during the demonstration, he did not partake in property damage.
The journalist revealed on Tuesday that the FBI issued a warrant for him to self-surrender to a Dallas courthouse, but did not inform him of his charges.
Baker’s lawyers already suggested in January that these attacks were possibly in retaliation by the Justice Department regarding his two explosive articles that embarrassed the DOJ heavily.
Baker slammed the FBI’s attack and said, “They didn’t have to go this route.”
“We have been told that my charges are only misdemeanors. And my attorneys have been assured that this will be an ‘in and out’ affair with ‘no intention’ to detain me. But rather than issuing a simple order to appear, they went the ‘arrest warrant’ route.”
“I’m not a depressive person, but I’m not happy about this,” Baker said.
The Jan 6 was not DJT fought. Get to the bottom of this and get the real criminals in jail.
YES!! Its about time the TRUTH is made available to all! Way to go Speaker Johnson.