Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCathy</a> (R-CA) praised his successor in the role of House speaker, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA), on Sunday for overseeing the long-awaited release of more <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> footage to the public.
In an interview on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341442240112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Morning Futures</a>,&#8221; McCarthy said, &#8220;Johnson&#8217;s doing a tremendous job with that, adding more and more&#8221; after the new speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-announces-public-release-of-january-6-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced the rolling online disclosure</a> of tens of thousands of hours of video on Friday.
Before he was ousted as speaker last month, McCarthy kickstarted the process of releasing U.S. Capitol security tapes, which began to show the public an unvarnished look at the scenes of the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021, in contrast to the images shown during hearings led by the January 6 Committee when Democrats ran the House.
McCarthy shared access with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-mccarthy-releases-41000-hours-of-exclusive-jan-6-footage-to-tucker-carlson-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson</a>, who aired footage that included video showing police officers appearing to stand by passively as people poured into the Capitol. Also during his speakership, the House had begun to grant <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/09/01/media-defendants-to-get-access-to-capitol-video-from-jan-6-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restricted access</a> to other members of the media and January 6 defendants.
&#8220;The one thing I had found is, we wanted transparency. So, when we took the majority, [the] first thing I did was make sure those tapes became under the responsibility of House Administration. What we found was, [the] January 6 Committee had lied to us, that there were thousands of more hours of tape,&#8221; McCarthy said.
&#8220;And the first thing I wanted to make sure is, anybody who was in jail, had the right to a defense was able to see those tapes. So that was the priority,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The defense was able to go through those. We started bringing press in to be able to see it. We were building a portal where every time the press looked at something and they went through it, the public was able to get it.&#8221;
One particular area in which the video footage made a difference, as noted by McCarthy, was to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/target-of-reconnaissance-tour-story-fires-back-at-january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counter allegations</a> about Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) — who is now working to process the footage for public release on a rolling basis as chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration — giving a “reconnaissance tour” a day before January 6.
&#8220;Barry Loudermilk has done a tremendous job, congressman from Georgia walking through this,&#8221; McCarthy said, adding, &#8220;Remember, he got — they accused him of something that&#8217;s not true, the January 6 Committee, and the tapes actually proved that it was not true, that he wasn&#8217;t giving tours inside. And that&#8217;s really what drove this.&#8221;

Kevin McCarthy

McCarthy Praises Speaker Johnson For ‘Tremendous Job’ Releasing January 6 Tapes

McCarthy Praises Speaker Johnson For 'Tremendous Job' Releasing January 6 Tapes

Congress

January 6

January 6 Committee

U.S.

U.S. House of Representatives

Former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was sentenced this week to more than two decades behind bars in connection to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, marking the harshest sentence to date in the Biden DOJ’s handling of January 6. 
Along with Tarrio — who was not even in D.C. on the day of the breach — his co-defendants, fellow Proud Boys, racked up huge sentences, too.
Before Tarrio, Ethan Nordean was tied for having the longest sentence at 18 years. Joe Biggs, a <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/06/07/veterans-make-most-of-proud-boys-members-indicted-sedition-jan-6-violence.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">purple heart recipient,</a> was handed down a 17-year sentence, and Zachary Rehl, a U.S. Marine veteran, was hit with a 15-year sentence. 
All four of the men — not a single one even accused of assault — were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee who sentenced each young man, agreed with the government that all four of them be hit with a “terrorism sentencing enhancement.” Meaning each sentence will be over ten years at a minimum. 
First, let&#8217;s look at what they were convicted of (among other lesser charges): seditious conspiracy. This is significant. The seditious conspiracy law was enacted after the Civil War to arrest Southerners who might try to keep fighting the U.S. government. It’s extremely rare in its application, and hard to prove – but it’s been used by the Biden DOJ about a dozen times now in connection to the Capitol breach, and so far, rather successfully. 
Save Tarrio, who was not at the Capitol, the other three young men were accused of trespassing and damage to government property. In Biggs&#8217; case, for example, he helped remove a fence outside the Capitol.
These are minor infractions, so the DOJ took on that rare seditious conspiracy charge, which they had to try to prove with speech, and mostly private speech. The government sifted through tens of thousands of private and some public messages from the men to build their flimsy, yet successful, cases.
In one message used by the prosecution, Tarrio <a href="https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/sedition-trial-for-miami-ex-proud-boys-leader-4-others-begins-2-years-after-jan-6-riot/2948854/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> after the breach, &#8220;Make no mistake … we did this.&#8221; The government also highlighted a document outlining a Capital takeover that was sent to Tarrio on social media platform Telegram called “<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/26/proud-boys-leader-verdict-jan-6-00093891">1776 Returns</a>.” Tarrio did not directly respond to the sent document and claims he never even saw it, let alone open it.
The government told the court Tarrio, who is the son of Cuban immigrants, was &#8220;intelligent, charming, creative, and articulate” and argued that he used those talents to “inflame and radicalize an untold number of followers.”
Defense lawyers maintained throughout the trail that there was not a single shred of written evidence to show that the men conspired to stop the certification of the 2020 election, though they might have boasted and talked &#8220;s***&#8221; to each other, privately. 
Tarrio himself actually spoke about this glaring speech issue during the trial, from inside a jail cell. He suggested the trial concerned free speech, and said that the government is trying to “manipulate” how people speak to each other privately. Here’s what Tarrio said in a Twitter Spaces event, which was hosted on April 25th: 
<blockquote>“What they’re trying to do, what people are trying to do – and this is in general, I’m speaking in general – is manipulate how we talk to each other in the locker room,&#8221; Tarrio <a href="https://twitter.com/gatewaypundit/status/1651006027209342977" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;And it’s not fair &#8230; It’s just not right. It’s not the Justice system that you grew up in civics class learning about.” </blockquote>
Notably, the DOJ has had near-perfect success in prosecuting J6 defendants before D.C. juries – this is a very liberal city, where, in 2020, Biden secured a stunning <a href="https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/washington-dc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">93%</a> of the vote. That likely emboldened the government to go forward with these extreme charges, knowing they could win. 
It also seems Donald Trump is a key factor in the DOJ going so hard after the Proud Boys: it could help their pursuit of the former president. Trump notably said on television in September of 2020, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” This was breathlessly reported by those in legacy media, the clip was shown by prosecution in this Proud Boys trial, and you can bet it will be a focus at Trump’s coming J6 trial. 
Reporter Julie Kelly, who’s been covering these J6 cases from the very beginning, believes just that. 
<blockquote>“There is no case for seditious conspiracy – certainly they could be charged with trespassing, or, ya know, vandalizing property – no one is accused of assaulting a police officer,&#8221; Kelly <a href="https://rumble.com/v2krcrc-tucker-speaks-again-atf-attacks-americans-proud-boys-on-trial-rep.-nehls-bi.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> months ago on Real America&#8217;s Voice. &#8220;The reason why the outcome of this trial matters, is because the government is going to use this – any convictions – special counsel Jack Smith – to indict Donald Trump on the very same offenses.”</blockquote>
Trump has since been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/us/politics/trump-indictment-charges-jan-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with conspiracy to violate civil rights, conspiracy to defraud the government, the corrupt obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to carry out such obstruction.
While the DOJ has continued this harsh pursuit, the American people have taken notice. Polling by Rasmussen from about 10 months after January 6 showed that <a href="https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/september_2021/are_capitol_rioters_political_prisoners_many_voters_say_yes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly half</a> of all Americans thought J6 defendants were “political prisoners.” And polling from this year by Quinnipiac showed that <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/polls-show-americans-are-divided-on-the-significance-of-january-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">about half the country</a> is ready to move on from J6, finding it less significant an event than it’s being portrayed.
Some GOP lawmakers have weighed in on this, too, saying these defendants are being treated poorly and far more harshly than any BLM protester or rioter has been treated. Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley (R), for example, has called out the DOJ for this disparity. 
In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland last year, Hawley wrote:
<blockquote> “While you treat persons charged with petty offenses from the January 6 riot as hardened criminals, now even the most heinous offenses can be treated leniently, as long as the perpetrator is of the correct race and the crime can be connected to some progressive cause.” </blockquote>
One case highlighted was over a BLM protester named Montez Terriel Lee, Jr. who was convicted of arson to a pawn shop that resulted in the death of a 30-year-old man. The DOJ, citing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to defend Lee, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/prosecutors-win-light-sentence-for-man-who-set-deadly-fire-during-floyd-riots" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> for a lighter sentence for the man. Lee was sentenced to ten years – that’s less than half of Tarrio’s sentence – and, again, Tarrio wasn&#8217;t present at the riot. 
Lawmakers have also <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-treated-jan-6-inmates-celebrities-jail-visit-1234703702/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raised objections</a> about how long some of these defendants have been <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/why-capitol-riot-defendants-being-held-without-bond-before-trial-january-6-congress/65-1e4d4dd6-eded-4187-85f1-d4dfcc3a9519" target="_blank" rel="noopener">held in jail</a> without bond awaiting their trials, arguing that their due process rights have been violated. Tarrio, for example, was locked up since March 2022 &#8211; long before his trial even started. 
To date, more than 1,100 Americans have been charged in connection to the Capitol breach, and more than 300 people have already been sentenced to prison time. And it doesn&#8217;t appear the DOJ is slowing down. 
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Enrique Tarrio

Biden’s DOJ Throws The Book At Proud Boys Over J6, Racking Up Huge Sentences

Biden's DOJ Throws The Book At Proud Boys Over J6, Racking Up Huge Sentences

Donald Trump

Joe Biden

Readers Pass

House Republicans announced on Friday that members of the media and other qualified individuals will have access to view security footage from the U.S. Capitol breach on January 6, 2021.
“House Republicans are continuing to deliver on our promise to bring transparency and accountability to the People’s House by increasing access to security footage of the U.S. Capitol from January 5th and 6th, 2021,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/congress-to-grant-limited-access-to-jan-6-security-footage-house-gop-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said in a statement.
GOP lawmakers first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-announces-new-round-of-journalists-receive-unfettered-access-to-j6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> earlier this year they would begin to slowly roll out to individual news agencies more than 40,000 hours of security footage from the Capitol breach to networks to counter the “politicization” fostered by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6th Committee.
The Committee on House Administration published a set of guidelines that would allow members of the U.S. media, government-focused nonprofit organizations, and attorneys for defendants facing charges related to the January 6 to submit requests to view the footage.
“This announcement stands in stark contrast to the previous Democrat leadership, who blocked access to the footage and only showed carefully edited clips to the public,” Loudermilk, who chairs the administration committee’s oversight subpanel, added.
According to program rules, those seeking access to the security tapes would need to set an appointment that limits them to watch the footage for three hours at a time, once a week. Spectators are prohibited from recording the tapes from secured terminals inside the Capitol building and may only be given portions of the footage at the committee’s discretion.
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For more than two years, U.S. citizens have called on lawmakers to release the footage to the public, expressing concerns over how media outlets curate the timeline of events.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced in May that three news media outlets received footage from the Capitol breach to bring the American people more transparency about what happened that day.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) released “unfettered access” of the Capitol security footage to investigative journalist and Just the News founder John Solomon, senior writer for American Greatness Julie Kelly, and an unidentified third news outlet.
McCarthy first gave the exclusive surveillance footage to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who reported on several tapes showing two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” throughout the building.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called from the Senate floor for Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch to pull Carlson off the air, and reporters from several sites hounded McCarthy for giving Carlson’s team access to the video.
Schumer accused McCarthy in a February letter to his colleagues of potentially causing another “attack” on the Capitol by releasing the security footage from January 6, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3870181-schumer-blasts-mccarthy-for-giving-jan-6-footage-to-fox-news/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Hill.
“The speaker is needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11,” Schumer said in a letter to Senate Democrats. “The footage Speaker McCarthy is making available to Fox News is a treasure trove of closely held information about how the Capitol complex is protected and its public release would compromise the safety of the Legislative Branch and allow those who want to commit another attack to learn how Congress is safeguarded.”

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House Republicans Unveil Instructions To Access January 6 Capitol Footage

House Republicans Announce Media, Defendants Charged In January 6-Related Crimes Can Access Capitol Riot Footage

Capitol Riot

Chuck Schumer

House Republicans

US Capitol

Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/georgia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a> is demanding that the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> turn over a number of transcripts of interviews with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Select Committee on January 6</a>.
Loudermilk heads the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and is leading an audit of the disbanded January 6 committee’s investigation into the Capitol riot. Loudermilk revealed earlier this month that the January 6 committee did not keep all of its records, and that some are being held by the White House and Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
“[T]he White House is in possession of records that are the property of the U.S. House of Representatives, including testimony provided to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,” Loudermilk wrote in a Friday <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23927253-82523-rep-loudermilk-letter-to-sauber62" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the White House obtained by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-republican-demands-unredacted-jan-6-panel-transcripts-white-hous-rcna101807" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>. “These records must be returned immediately in their original form without alteration or redaction.”
The Georgia Republican said that the White House appears to be holding the transcripts of interviews of “multiple Secret Service agents or employees who were assigned to former President Trump on January 6, 2021.” Loudermilk said that the interviews of the Secret Service employees were referenced in November 2022 letters between the White House and DHS.
“[N]o Congressional committee, prior to the Democrat-controlled Select Committee, had ever sought to compel the testimony of a Secret Service agent about activities they observed while performing protective functions,” he wrote. “Despite this, you wrote that President Biden would not assert executive privilege with respect to testimony to be provided by these individuals to the Select Committee.”
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) tapped Loudermilk to lead an investigation into the January 6 committee’s findings. Earlier this month, Loudermilk accused the committee of manipulating evidence to create an anti-Trump “narrative” while failing to investigate key aspects of the Capitol riot, such as the actions of security officials at the U.S. Capitol that day.
“Basically, all they did after spending $18.5 million was come out with a manifesto against [former President Donald Trump], trying to tie Donald Trump to the attack on the Capitol,” Loudermilk said in an interview with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/investigate-the-investigators-j6-committee-ignored-manipulated-evidence-for-narrative-gop-rep-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>. “That was their narrative. Everything that they did appears to be to just come up with that narrative.”
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The January 6 committee “blue team” was tasked with investigating Capitol security, but Loudermilk said that after reviewing the committee’s underlying research, his team found next to no documentation showing the blue team ever investigated.
“That’s a set of documents that we don’t have. Now our question is: did these documents ever exist?” he said. “It’s more than likely,” Loudermilk said, that the blue team did investigate, but found something that “somebody didn’t want them to,” so “they suppressed the records.”

Barry Loudermilk

GOP Rep Investigating J6 Demands Unredacted Records From White House

Politics

Washington D.C.

White House

A Republican congressman auditing the Democrat-driven investigation into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> says the now-disbanded <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> select committee manipulated its findings to craft a political narrative.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, received a request from House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> to audit the January 6 committee’s findings. After gathering the piles of evidence – documents, depositions, videos, and other information – uncovered by the January 6 Committee, Loudermilk says there are conspicuous gaps in the records.
“Basically, all they did after spending $18.5 million was come out with a manifesto against [former President Donald Trump], trying to tie Donald Trump to the attack on the Capitol,” Loudermilk said in an interview with The Daily Wire. “That was their narrative. Everything that they did appears to be to just come up with that narrative.”
The Georgia Republican requested all of the January 6 committee records from its former chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS). What Loudermilk received showed how the January 6 committee omitted key facts about the riot in its final report, he said.
The most shocking discovery that Loudermilk made, he said, was evidence that showed “there were some plain-clothes law enforcement officers” among the rioters “who were encouraging people to go into the Capitol.”
He said the January 6 committee also manipulated evidence and made false claims, in one instance targeting him. The report says Loudermilk gave a tour of the U.S. Capitol to a man later accused of joining the riot. The man “took a tour of the Capitol with Representative Barry Loudermilk, during which he took pictures of hallways and staircases,” the <a href="https://www.jan-6.com/_files/ugd/acac13_ffa28ed6c2694272a265860e447122c7.pdf?gclid=Cj0KCQjwldKmBhCCARIsAP-0rfz2KznjL2iAGt2_CakMqdwXLHYukr_NvfAs5yF0JsGe6we6pp5EE0MaAu-kEALw_wcB" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> says.
The Georgia congressman says that is false. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jan-6-panel-releases-new-surveillance-video-tour-eve-riot-rcna33713" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the committee that, while Loudermilk did lead a tour of several people around some of the Capitol Hill offices and hallways, they never entered the Capitol building.
In addition, Loudermilk says he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/j6-committee-records-white-house-correspondence-missing-gop-lawmaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a> little about the security around the Capitol building that day. The committee investigated it; it assigned its “blue team” to cover that part of the investigation into the riot. But Loudermilk says that little evidence from the blue team’s research was included in the files he received.
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“That’s a set of documents that we don’t have. Now our question is: did these documents ever exist?” he said. Loudermilk posited that “it’s more than likely” that the blue team did investigate, but found something that “somebody didn’t want them to,” so “they suppressed the records.”
Notably not included in the boxes of evidence, Loudermilk found a letter Thompson sent to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security appearing to show a manifest of records the committee received from both as part of its investigation. Thompson’s letter catalogued what it was returning as the committee was shutting down. Loudermilk said those records never should have been returned, and is now attempting to retrieve them.
“We need to get to the truth of what really happened and look into the conduct of the January 6 committee,” Loudermilk said. After all of his discoveries, one of his primary concerns now is working out “how much more of this report is just made up narrative.”

Investigate The Investigators: J6 Committee Ignored, Manipulated Evidence For ‘Narrative,’ GOP Rep Says

Bennie Thompson

The House committee assembled to investigate the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a>, 2021, riot at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a> did not properly document and save its communications or records it collected.
Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia, chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight for the Committee on House Administration, is heading a GOP effort to audit the January 6 committee’s findings but says his probe has been hampered because of a lack of documentation, according to Fox News. Numerous documents and recordings, as well as the January 6 committee’s communications with the White House, appear to be missing from the stores of information and data left for Loudermilk to sort through.
“It took us a long time going through it and one thing I started realizing is we don’t have anything much at all from the Blue Team,” Loudermilk told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/j6-committee-failed-to-preserve-records-has-no-data-on-capitol-hill-security-failures-gop-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>, referencing a subgroup on the January 6 committee tasked with probing security failures. “We’ve got lots of depositions, we’ve got lots of subpoenas, we’ve got video and other documents provided through subpoenas by individuals. But we’re not seeing anything from the Blue Team as far as reports on the investigation they did looking into the actual breach itself.”
Loudermilk said, based on people he spoke with, the select committee on January 6 intentionally did not investigate security failures that contributed to the riot in order to focus blame on former President Donald Trump. Former January 6 committee chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said last month that he believes his committee’s work “put significant pressure” on the Department of Justice to indict Trump over January 6.
“I think up until that point of the hearings, it could have gone either way. But I think the compelling argument that we made as a committee for millions of Americans as to how close we came to losing our democracy, [the Justice Department] really didn’t … have a choice,” Thompson <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4127211-bennie-thompson-says-jan-6-hearings-helped-pressure-doj/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “And when the special prosecutor was put forth, I think we helped make his case.”
The gaps in the January 6 committee records came to light after defense attorneys representing clients charged over the riot began requesting documents and other evidence from Loudermilk for their cases. The congressman said some of what he was asked for, he did not have.
Loudermilk relayed his concerns to Thompson, who said that his committee turned over all that was required of it, totaling four terabytes of information. Loudermilk contested that claim, saying he had only received 2.5 terabytes of data. He also said that Thompson’s committee violated federal law and admitted as much in a footnote of a letter Thompson sent Loudermilk on July 7. Thompson has denied the accusation.
The footnote said in part: “Consistent with guidance from the Office of the Clerk and other authorities, the Select Committee did not archive temporary committee records that were not elevated by the Committee’s actions, such as use in hearings or official publications, or those that did not further its investigative activities. Accordingly, and contrary to your letter’s implication, the Select Committee was not obligated to archive all video recordings of transcribed interviews or depositions.”
Loudermilk told Fox News: “It was clear in law they had to especially and, I mean if there was any question, the fact that they used the videos in the hearings would dictate that it had to be preserved. The more we go in the more we&#8217;re realizing that there&#8217;s things that we don&#8217;t have. We don’t have anything about security failures at the Capitol, we don’t have the videos of the depositions.”
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The Georgia Republican also discovered that missing from the January 6 files are an unknown number of communications sent between the committee and the White House. Loudermilk made the discovery when he obtained a letter sent from Thompson to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was not included in the committee’s files.
&#8220;No version of the letter to Mr. Sauber — either redacted or unredacted — or the letter to the DHS General Counsel was archived by the Select Committee or provided to this Committee,&#8221; Loudermilk wrote in a letter to Thompson.
The January 6 committee was largely a Democratic effort, except for former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who joined the committee after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy refused to countenance the committee over restrictions on which Republicans could join.

Liz Cheney

J6 Committee Records, White House Correspondence Missing: GOP Lawmaker

General

Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wyoming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wyoming</a> Congresswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/liz-cheney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liz Cheney</a> had a chilly reception at her alma mater this past weekend when she gave the commencement speech for Colorado College’s class of 2023. 
Many students turned their backs to Cheney during her speech and others booed, while she also received some signs of support from the audience. According to the Cowboy State Daily, <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/05/30/colorado-college-grads-turn-backs-to-alumnus-liz-cheney-during-commencement-address/#:~:text=About%20half%20of%20Colorado%20College's,Class%20of%202023%20on%20Sunday." target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly half</a> of the graduates turned their backs to Cheney during her speech.
“It’s an honor to be here with most of you to celebrate this tremendous accomplishment,” she said during her speech, which also took aim at former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
“After the 2020 election, and the attack of Jan. 6, my fellow Republicans wanted me to lie,” Cheney said. “They wanted me to say that the 2020 election was stolen, that the attack of Jan. 6 wasn’t a big deal, and that Donald Trump wasn’t dangerous.”
“I had to choose between lying and losing my position in House leadership,” she added.
Colorado College is a private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs and has a student body of over 2,000 students. The school’s president, Leah Song Richardson, <a href="https://gazette.com/news/education/colorado-college-alum-liz-cheney-delivers-commencement-speech-graduates-turn-chairs-away-from-stage-in/article_32e7fc22-fd89-11ed-92a8-f7214a714b08.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told students</a> to “welcome different perspectives” in the leadup to Cheney’s speech.
“The liberal arts education that you received here, both inside the classroom and outside, has taught you how to think,” she said. “It’s taught you how to think critically, to welcome different perspectives, to see and understand different viewpoints, to challenge and debate each other and the ideas with which you may disagree.”
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Cheney, who became well-known for her feud with Trump while serving on the Democrat-run <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 committee</a>, was booted from Congress after she lost a primary race to current Rep. Harriet Hagemen (R-WY), who was backed by Trump and went on to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/republican-harriet-hageman-replaces-liz-cheney-wins-wyoming-house-seat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">win the general election</a>.
One student complained to the Cowboy State Daily that Cheney was too conservative. “She stood up to Trump, and that was commendable,” one student said. “But that doesn’t change her voting record or her stance on what I consider to be basic human rights.”
During her speech, Cheney also took shots at men, saying that more women should be in politics.
“This country needs more of you [women] in office,” she said. “You may have noticed that men are pretty much running things these days, and it’s not going all that well. You can change that.”
In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, Cheney campaigned for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/first-time-im-campaigning-for-a-democrat-liz-cheney-hits-the-trail-in-michigan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic candidate in Michigan</a> and opposed Republican Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

January 6th Committee Votes On Whether To Hold Mark Meadows In Contempt Of Congress

Students Turn Back On, Boo Liz Cheney During Commencement Speech

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A House Republican leader accused the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a> of knowingly spreading false allegations about him giving a &#8220;reconnaissance tour&#8221; a day before the 2021 U.S. Capitol breach.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), the target of those allegations, shared this week the initial findings of his inquiry into the January 6 panel in his capacity as chairman of the Committee on House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight.
“As the subcommittee continues to go through over 2 million documents provided by the January 6th Select Committee, our initial review has found that their work was solely focused on pushing a pre-determined narrative and they selectively chose ‘facts’ to fit that narrative,&#8221; Loudermilk said in a <a href="https://loudermilk.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Tuesday.
&#8220;I was the target of one of those narratives, when they accused me of giving a ‘reconnaissance tour,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;We’ve uncovered documents that prove the committee knew that the allegation that I gave a ‘reconnaissance tour’ was verifiably false, yet continued to make public accusations and ultimately printed that lie in their final report.&#8221;
At the center of the allegations was a group of people including adults and children that Loudermilk visited as they toured office buildings in the U.S. Capitol complex on January 5, 2021. A day later, on January 6, a crowd of people breached the Capitol building, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Loudermilk attracted scrutiny from the now-defunct January 6 Committee as one of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/07/list-republicans-voted-to-reject-election-results" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dozens of Republican lawmakers</a> who voted in favor of Electoral College objections over concerns of fraud and other issues. A week after January 6, accusations of a “reconnaissance tour” began to spread among Democrats, Loudermilk notes in a <a href="https://cha.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-cha.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/tour-accusation_timeline-summary-.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">timeline summary document</a>.
After reviewing security footage, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a June 2022 letter that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/politics/barry-loudermilk-reconnaissance-tour-capitol-police/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;there is no evidence&#8221;</a> that Loudermilk entered the U.S. Capitol building itself with the group on January 5. “We train our officers on being alert for people conducting surveillance or reconnaissance, and we do not consider any of the activities we observed as suspicious,&#8221; added Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger.
Despite this determination by law enforcement, Loudermilk said the January 6 Committee <a href="https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2022/06/letter-loudermilk.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">soon released a letter</a> with &#8220;selectively edited &#8216;evidence'&#8221; regarding the tour.
There is more.
The congressman pointed to the January 6 Committee&#8217;s <a href="https://www.jan-6.com/_files/ugd/acac13_ffa28ed6c2694272a265860e447122c7.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">final report</a>, which the timeline document faults for &#8220;repeating false claim of Loudermilk giving &#8216;a tour of the Capitol.'&#8221; That final report, released in December, also briefly discusses a tour participant who attended former President Donald Trump&#8217;s January 6 rally on the Ellipse. But this individual, Trevor Hallgren, told the committee he only ever got within <a href="https://ia804704.us.archive.org/7/items/january-6th-committee-witness-testimony-20220407-trevor-hallgren/20220407_Trevor%20Hallgren_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">100 to 300 yards</a> of the Capitol building on January 6 and he has not been <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases?combine=Hallgren" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused of any crimes</a> in connection to the breach.
The congressman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P3rOlJc1tY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">published a video</a> showing the January 6 Committee&#8217;s &#8220;selective&#8221; clips of the tour followed by the &#8220;full&#8221; footage of him on January 5. In addition, Loudermilk shared <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rSzUpYFJLdk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> from one of the visitors in the group that his office says the January 6 Committee received and &#8220;shows that the group was solely watching the Congressman go to vote.&#8221;
In conclusion, Loudermilk said, &#8220;It’s clear their work isn’t credible, and they owe every individual whose reputation they attempted to smear an apology.&#8221;
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Rep. Norma Torres (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, responded to Loudermilk&#8217;s disclosure by criticizing Republicans for how they have conducted the investigation.
“As the Ranking Member of the House Administration Oversight Subcommittee, I find it unacceptable – but not surprising – the Republican majority has released these findings without previously sharing any information with the Democratic minority, including myself, my office, and the committee’s Democratic staff,&#8221; <a href="https://torres.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/oversight-subcommittee-ranking-member-torres-statement-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she said in a statement</a>.
&#8220;We have not held any meetings, public or private, to discuss this process,&#8221; Torres added before accusing Republicans of ignoring security concerns and siding with &#8220;conspiracy theorists.&#8221; She specifically mentioned Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-scolds-republicans-over-tucker-carlson-airing-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aired never-before-seen</a> security Capitol footage from January 6.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who gave Carlson access to the tapes, has accused the January 6 Committee of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlsons-use-of-january-6-tapes-is-limited-republican-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fostering &#8220;politicization.&#8221;</a> He recently told <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/congress/tuemccarthy-blasts-jan-6-democrat-probers-tarring-gop-lawmaker-when-evidence?utm_medium=social_media&amp;utm_source=twitter_social_icon&amp;utm_campaign=social_icons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just the News</a> that the January 6 Committee&#8217;s handling of matters such as the Loudermilk allegations &#8220;puts into question everything else they have said.&#8221;

Target Of ‘Reconnaissance Tour’ Story Fires Back At January 6 Committee

Target Of 'Reconnaissance Tour' Story Fires Back At January 6 Committee

Former House Jan 6 committee Chairman <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/jan-6-committee-boss-plays-dumb-on-tucker-carlsons-bombshell-footage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bennie Thompson</a> (D-MS) claimed on Wednesday that he and other members of the January 6th Committee had not had access to all of the footage of that day&#8217;s events, saying that &#8220;a team of employees&#8221; had been responsible for going through the video.
CNN political reporter Alayna Treene shared Thompson&#8217;s comments in a series of tweets, saying, &#8220;[Thompson], former chair of the Jan. 6 committee, said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress. &#8216;It’s strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place,&#8217; he told CNN.&#8221;
&#8220;Thompson said he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it,&#8221; Treene continued her report. &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.'&#8221;
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Thompson said he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it. &quot;I&#39;m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.&quot;
&mdash; Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) <a href="https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1633578749374464005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Thompson&#8217;s claim comes after Fox News host <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/new-jan-6-video-changes-narrative-brings-knives-out-for-tucker-carlson-says-ben-shapiro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> — who was given access to thousands of hours of video from January 6 after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) took the gavel — aired several clips that appeared to show that several key Democratic talking points had been presented without necessary context.
Among them was a clip of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) — who has been labeled &#8220;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/josh-hawley-seen-fleeing-trump-mob-riled-newly-released-jan-6-footage-rcna39490" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-insurrection</a>&#8221; by the far Left because he raised a fist in support of peaceful protesters prior to entering the Capitol that day — running toward an exit to evacuate the building. The clip shared by the committee only showed Hawley and was used to suggest that he was running in fear of the people he had supported just hours earlier.
But <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/7/bennie-thompson-jan-6-committee-chairman-denies-pa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage aired</a> earlier this week by Carlson suggested that Hawley was not the only one running from the building at that point — he was simply the last in a long line of senators from both parties who were being escorted from the building.
&#8220;The actual videotape shows that Hawley was one of many lawmakers being ushered out of the building by Capitol Hill police officers, and in fact, Hawley was at the back of the pack. The coward tape was a lie,&#8221; Carlson remarked after airing the footage.
Thompson, when asked about that specific clip, doubled down: &#8220;I stand by the tape.&#8221;
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In addition to the &#8220;employees&#8221; Thompson claimed were responsible for handling the video footage, the January 6 committee hired former ABC News president James Goldston to &#8220;produce&#8221; the entire affair for &#8220;maximum impact&#8221; — a move which also could have impacted which clips were shown to the public and which ended up on the cutting room floor.
&#8220;The plan is to present the case in six tight, thematic episodes that will unfold in prime time and during the day, running 90 to 150 minutes. The idea is to make them as compelling as the marathon Watergate hearings — some of which stretched for hours — but tailored for the streaming era and a media world fueled by viral moments,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/09/us/the-committee-hired-a-tv-executive-to-produce-the-hearings-for-maximum-impact.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.

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J6 Committee Chair Claims Members Didn’t Have Access To Footage — Shifts Blame To Staffers And ABC Producer

J6 Committee Chair Claims Members Didn't Have Access To Footage — Shifts Blame To Staffers And ABC Producer

Tucker Carlson

Don&#8217;t blame the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House January 6 committee</a> for burying Capitol security video that devastated its &#8220;violent insurrection&#8221; narrative. Turns out members had never seen it either, according to the chairman.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jan-6-video-changes-narrative-brings-knives-out-for-tucker-carlson-says-ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a> on Monday aired footage that showed rioters clashing with police and scaling walls, but we had already seen that, courtesy of the committee. However, the Fox News host also ran footage of alleged rioters, including so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, peaceably filing through the building as police officers milled passively around them. In some clips, Chansley, bare-chested, face-painted, and wearing a horned headdress, even seemed to be escorted through the building by police, and at one point was alone in the proximity of nine cops.
Although police officials have since said cops were simply trying to de-escalate the situation, it was still confusing to anyone who had bought the committee&#8217;s claims that a horde of marauding maniacs tore through the building like Visigoths sacking Rome. We knew there was a riot, but some of these folks sure didn&#8217;t look dangerous.
Panel Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) was apparently as surprised as anyone by the new video. Although he and other top Democrats are furious that Americans got to see the footage, he admitted that neither he nor anyone else on the committee had seen it, either.
&#8220;I&#8217;m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access,” Thompson said Wednesday. “We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.&#8221;
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🚨BREAKING: Never before seen video of January 6 shows Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, being led through the Capitol by police the entire time that he was in the building. <a href="https://t.co/rikoRMWezF">pic.twitter.com/rikoRMWezF</a>
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That explains it! The Democrats on the committee, who hired former ABC News president and onetime “Good Morning America” producer James Goldston to turn raw footage into a grand, prime-time-style production showing American democracy on the brink of collapse, never saw video that proves the day’s events weren’t quite as black and white as we were told. They didn’t even have “access.”
It was a faceless “team of employees” who presented footage of actual rioting while hiding from the public &#8212; and allegedly from criminal defendants – video that showed not everyone who entered the Capitol was a wild-eyed, violent insurrectionist. Chansley’s lawyer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-appalling-qanon-shamans-lawyer-says-doj-lied-withheld-videos-aired-by-carlson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Daily Wire Wednesday</a> he, like Thompson, never had access to video that could have helped him defend his client, who is now serving a 41-month sentence after pleading guilty to obstructing an official proceeding.
Carlson did not condone the riot or claim it never happened, but said the video showed that the media and the House committee had not told the whole story. While a violent riot most certainly did occur, the video shows that dozens and maybe even hundreds of people, who mistakenly thought their protests could convince then-Vice President Mike Pence to block Joe Biden from becoming president, had good reason to believe they were not breaking the law.
The investigation by the panel formally known as The United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol lasted 18 months and helped shape the perception that January 6 was a 9/11-level attack on America, and the biggest attack on our democracy since the Civil War. It was bad, but it was neither of those things. Not even close.
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You might think that over the course of a year and a half, some members of the committee, oh say nominal Republicans, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney, might have personally reviewed security footage. But according to Thompson, they weren’t allowed to. The all-powerful “team of employees,” led by Goldston, apparently forbade them from seeing for themselves what really happened.
Who knew it would take Tucker Carlson to show Thompson that despite what his &#8220;team of employees&#8221; said, not everyone who entered the Capitol on January 6 was a threat to democracy? He must be so grateful.

QAnon Shaman

Jan. 6 Committee Boss Plays Dumb On Tucker Carlson’s Bombshell Footage

Jan. 6 Committee Boss Plays Dumb On Tucker Carlson's Bombshell Footage

Thanks to Speaker of the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) and Fox News&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-releases-january-6-footage-that-raises-new-questions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tucker Carlson</a>, the record regarding the January 6 Capitol Hill riot has officially changed.
Those who have paid attention to the story have argued that the narrative put forth by the House of Representatives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a> and their allies in Legacy Media has been largely bogus from the get-go. Now, those skeptics have video footage that appears to back up their claims thanks to Carlson.
As a result, the American public — and future generations — are one step closer to having a full look at all the available evidence and drawing their own conclusions as to what really happened that day.
As speaker of the house, McCarthy chose to give Carlson more than 40,000 hours of Capitol security footage. It was within his complete authority to do so. Leftist critics warned that doing so would endanger the Republic itself. Some members of the press suddenly woke up and demanded that they too be given access to the footage, but many fretted about conspiracy theories.
On the first night of its airing, we found several key differences from what Congress depicted for the past two years, according to the Fox News host.
Contrary to the official story, the video evidence allegedly shows that Q-Anon Shaman was led around the building by police and could have been arrested at any moment — he wasn&#8217;t rampaging through like some madman. We know for a fact that Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) did not give a tour around the capitol on January 5 to rioters as alleged. And, Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) was not the only senator to run away from the mob, he was just captured doing it alone on security footage.
These claims have been discussed for more than 24 months now, but it has been just chatter — not necessarily video content. To paraphrase a quote from investigative journalist James O&#8217;Keefe, &#8220;Content is king. Everything else is just gossip.&#8221;
It seems much of that gossip could be confirmed on security footage with more to come. Here&#8217;s his first segment:
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Virtually no one in Washington, Republican or Democrat, wanted to see this tape released tonight. <a href="https://t.co/YfpvaIZTbn">pic.twitter.com/YfpvaIZTbn</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1632953663822913536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Until more information is released that debunks Carlson&#8217;s claims, there is no reason to doubt most of his version of the story thus far. Carlson&#8217;s record is certainly more trustworthy than the J6 Committee or any of the lapdog journalists who have reported on that day.
Because the inaccuracies of the government are now exposed, their entire version of the story — which was put forth as entirely factual — must be called into question by those who have bought it at face value.
Don&#8217;t take this author&#8217;s word for it, listen to Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY). He told Carlson that the clips shown have altered his own &#8220;perception&#8221; of what happened — and he was there:
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61% polled believe Feds helped incite J6 protests, and we all know they were there. We need a complete catalog of the Feds present on Jan 6th so we can see what they were taped doing.<a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> <a href="https://t.co/SzftS0GpET">pic.twitter.com/SzftS0GpET</a>
&mdash; Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1633177677363331075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Of course, more transparency is still needed. Carlson&#8217;s opinion and conclusion based on the facts may not necessarily be the exact truth of what happened either.
Ideally, all videos should be released so that we can get to the broader picture of the truth. If you care about sharing accurate information and trusting your fellow man, you should want that.
Yet it doesn&#8217;t seem like many journalists do want that at all.
In many cases, mainstream media has been more than happy to regurgitate the official J6 narrative rather than dig for answers.
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) could have given this footage to NBC, ABC, or CBS. She did not. It doesn&#8217;t seem as if they cared.
Now, many of those outlets are carrying water for the powers that be by accusing Carlson of being a propagandist.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/tucker-carlson-new-video-provided-speaker-mccarthy-falsely-depicts-jan-rcna73673" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran a story</a>, &#8220;Tucker Carlson, with video provided by Speaker McCarthy, falsely depicts Jan. 6 riot as a peaceful gathering.&#8221; ABC News couched the story as &#8220;<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/capitol-police-chief-slams-carlsons-comments-jan-6/story?id=97686463" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Police chief slams Carlson&#8217;s comments about Jan. 6 video as &#8216;offensive and misleading&#8217; in internal memo</a>.&#8221; At the time of this writing, CBS.com&#8217;s lead story was about Republicans who disagree with Carlson&#8217;s characterization.
It seems no other legacy media outlet is asking why Congress &#8220;misled&#8221; the American public — as Twitter CEO Elon Musk characterized it — on this matter for more than two years. Their lack of curiosity can only be described as negligence and malfeasance.
There is an old quote that &#8220;Journalism is the first draft of history.&#8221;
In recent years, journalists have been content with letting the government — particularly when aligned with the Democratic agenda — have the first crack at a record and letting it stand with very few edits.
Now, because of Carlson and McCarthy, it&#8217;s time to rip up that draft and start fresh. When future generations look back, they won&#8217;t have to rely purely on left-wing sources or the government narrative.
They can point to Carlson&#8217;s coverage, and hopefully, the primary footage themselves should it be released. History has changed.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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History Has Changed

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Twitter CEO Elon Musk slammed the January 6 Committee the morning after Fox News host Tucker Carlson began releasing new footage of that day, heretofore unseen by the public.
Musk was replying to a tweet that claimed that the committee lied about how Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick died, about Barry Loudermilk taking rioters on a reconnaissance mission, about Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley running away, and about Ray Epps being a credible witness.
“Besides misleading the public, they withheld evidence for partisan political reasons that sent people to prison for far more serious crimes than they committed,” Musk tweeted. “That is deeply wrong, legally and morally.”
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Besides misleading the public, they withheld evidence for partisan political reasons that sent people to prison for far more serious crimes than they committed.
That is deeply wrong, legally and morally.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633021151197954048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Musk also responded to a tweet stating that the BBC had run “3 separate negative Twitter stories on their online feed last two days. They are not covering the Jan 6 new evidence.”
“What say you, @BBCWorld? Your credibility is at stake,” Musk replied.
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What say you, <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BBCWorld</a>? Your credibility is at stake.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633013177691803648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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After pundit Mike Cernovich reacted to the Carlson revelations by tweeting, “What a day today was. From the SPLC doing propaganda for accused domestic terrorists to the Big Lie of the January 6th being exposed. Twitter is in a golden age of truth,” Musk tweeted simply, “Shocking indeed.”
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Shocking indeed
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1633007173222670336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Musk has shown that he is unwilling to swallow a story just because it comes from a well-known institution, whether it be Congress or a news organization. In January, after a Washington Post reporter characterized a leftist who had allegedly championed violence as someone “documenting racist and far-right attackers,” Musk fired back that the reporter was a “contemptible liar.”
Musk was responding to the Post’s article that was written by Joseph Menn, which stated that Chad Loder “was banned from Twitter by an order from owner Elon Musk, according to a former employee &#8230;” The Post Millennial’s editor-at-large, Andy Ngo, blasted Menn, writing, “Why didn&#8217;t you mention in your WaPo reporting that Antifa member Chad Loder incited violence, including deadly violence? He also celebrated violent crimes when he praised Antifa &#8216;martyrs,&#8217; including domestic terrorist Willem van Spronsen &amp; gunman Michael Reinoehl.”
“Joseph Menn is a contemptible liar,” Musk tweeted. “Twitter policy has always been to suspend accounts that clearly &amp; repeatedly incite violence.”
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Joseph Menn is a contemptible liar. Twitter policy has always been to suspend accounts that clearly &amp; repeatedly incite violence.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1611110531917828097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Musk famously tweeted, “Take the red pill,” in May 2020.
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Take the red pill 🌹
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1262076474565242880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the film “The Matrix,” the hero, Neo, is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill; the red pill would free him from a dream-world imposed on humanity and let him see reality. Some conservatives aver that taking the “red pill” means for a former liberal or leftist to embrace the conservative philosophy.

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