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

Bennie Thompson

Capitol Riot

Congress

January 6 Committee

Tucker Carlson

U.S.

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.

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

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

Politics

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

Capitol Hill

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
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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.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Rips Jan 6 Committee: ‘Misleading The Public … Withheld Evidence’

Elon Musk Rips Jan 6 Committee: ‘Misleading The Public ... Withheld Evidence’

House Democrats plan to meet and discuss Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) giving Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to <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">41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage</a> from the January 6, 2021.
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) sent a letter to Democratic colleagues on Tuesday saying his team is &#8220;working to confirm the precise nature of the video transfer,&#8221; which he called a &#8220;reported breach&#8221; that poses potential national security risks.
When House Democrats hold a virtual caucus meeting set for Wednesday afternoon, Jeffries said members will hear presentations from House Administration Committee ranking member Joe Morelle (D-NY) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who was chairman of the now-defunct January 6 Committee.
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Hakeem Jeffries writes in a Dear Colleague to Dems: &quot;The apparent transfer of video footage represents an egregious security breach that endangers the hardworking women and men of the United States Capitol Police, who valiantly defended our democracy with their lives at risk&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HGXeQN1TBq">https://t.co/HGXeQN1TBq</a> <a href="https://t.co/iHWA28jjKs">pic.twitter.com/iHWA28jjKs</a>
&mdash; Alayna Treene (@alaynatreene) <a href="https://twitter.com/alaynatreene/status/1628118904445800448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios first reported</a> on Monday that McCarthy <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">shared with Carlson 41,000 hours</a> of surveillance footage from the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
Carlson later said on his show, &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight,&#8221; that his team has been granted what they believe to be &#8220;unfettered&#8221; access to the tapes, and he plans to start sharing what they have found next week.
&#8220;Some of our smartest producers have been there looking at this stuff, trying to figure out what it means and how it contradicts, or not, the story that we&#8217;ve been told for more than two years,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;We think already that in some ways it does contradict that story.&#8221;
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Tucker Carlson Announces That His Show Has Been Granted Access To 44k Hours Of Footage From January 6th 
&quot;We believe that access is unfettered. We believe we have secured the right to see whatever we want to see.&quot;
&quot;We&#39;re going to spend the rest of this week taking a look at it,… <a href="https://t.co/sK7691S0n8">https://t.co/sK7691S0n8</a> <a href="https://t.co/GnPvtbENg5">pic.twitter.com/GnPvtbENg5</a>
&mdash; The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1627851223092035591?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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McCarthy has not yet commented publicly on the situation, but a Fox News spokesperson told The Daily Wire that the report from Axios was accurate.
The speaker said last month he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-shares-best-way-to-release-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking to release the tapes</a> because of the “politicization” he believed had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee, which focused heavily on former President Donald Trump in its final report.
During its slate of hearings last summer, the January 6 Committee aired clips of security footage, including one showing Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000008455630/josh-hawley-flee-capitol-attack.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running though a Capitol hallway</a> on January 6.
In his letter, Jeffries argued the panel followed &#8220;numerous protocols&#8221; in viewing the security footage, and stated there is &#8220;no indication the same precautionary measures&#8221; had been taken by McCarthy and Carlson.
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger confirmed security footage had been given to McCarthy, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/20/politics/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-january-6-footage/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to CNN</a>. &#8220;When congressional leadership or congressional oversight committees ask for things like this, we must give it to them,” Manger said.
Jeffries, Thompson, and other Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-panel-chairman-issues-warning-over-tucker-carlson-getting-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have already begun to raise concerns</a> about Carlson obtaining the video by claiming he is a purveyor of misinformation that fuels Russian propaganda.
The Capitol Police and federal prosecutors involved in January 6 cases <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/insurrection-capitol-footage-secret" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have argued</a> in favor of keeping much of the surveillance footage hidden from the public over concerns about security. Still, some Republicans have been cheering on the release of the tapes.
&#8220;For all of you that doubted we would release the tapes. Here you go! I’m very happy to be right again in my support for Kevin McCarthy as our Speaker,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1627689892162547714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)</a>. &#8220;Americans deserve to see the truth, not a one sided narrative and unfair two tiered justice system.&#8221;

Hakeem Jeffries

Democrats To Huddle About ‘Reported Breach’ Of January 6 Tapes

Democrats To Huddle About 'Reported Breach' Of January 6 Tapes

Fox News

January 6

The chairman of the n0w-defunct January 6 Committee warned of the &#8220;potential security risks&#8221; of U.S. Capitol security footage being released to the media.
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) issued a statement hours after Axios broke the news that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to <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">41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage</a> from the Jan. 6, 2021 — the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers who were meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
&#8220;When the Select Committee obtained access to U.S. Capitol Police video footage, it was treated with great sensitivity given concerns about the security of lawmakers, staff, and the Capitol complex,&#8221; Thompson said.
&#8220;Access was limited to members and a small handful of investigators and senior staff, and the public use of any footage was coordinated in advance with Capitol Police. It&#8217;s hard to overstate the potential security risks if this material were to be used irresponsibly,&#8221; he added.
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Statement from Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chaired the Jan6 committee, on <a href="https://twitter.com/axios?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Axios</a> report <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a> is giving special access to Jan 6 videos to Fox host. <a href="https://t.co/Vsvbei7K6J">pic.twitter.com/Vsvbei7K6J</a>
&mdash; Patricia Zengerle (@ReutersZengerle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReutersZengerle/status/1627808850878291970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A Fox News spokesperson confirmed the <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/20/kevin-mccarthy-tucker-carlson-jan-6-riot-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios report</a>, which said excerpts will begin to air in the coming weeks, to the Daily Wire.
Claiming that Carlson is a purveyor of misinformation, Thompson said McCarthy &#8220;owes the American people an explanation of why&#8221; he shared the footage with the Fox News host and &#8220;what steps he has taken to address the significant security concerns at stake.&#8221;
McCarthy has not yet commented publicly on the disclosure to Carlson, but the speaker did say last month he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-shares-best-way-to-release-january-6-tapes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looking to release the tapes</a> because of the “politicization” he believed had been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the January 6 Committee.
The January 6 Committee did air some clips of security footage during its summer hearings last year, including one showing Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000008455630/josh-hawley-flee-capitol-attack.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">running though a Capitol hallway</a>.
Carlson told Axios he believes there was &#8220;never any legitimate reason&#8221; for the footage to remain secret.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1627733161026195470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a tweet</a> the footage will also be available to January 6 defendants. &#8220;Americans deserve to see the truth, not a one sided narrative and unfair two tiered justice system,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1627689892162547714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she said in another tweet</a>.
Meanwhile, another Democratic member of the January 6 Committee, Maryland&#8217;s Rep. Jamie Raskin, questioned whether the release of the tapes could become a <a href="https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/1627765857131679759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;roadmap&#8221; for a 2024 &#8220;insurrection.&#8221;</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/brandon-drey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Drey</a> contributed to this report.

January 6 Panel Chairman Issues Warning Over Tucker Carlson Getting Tapes

The chief investigative counsel for the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 committee</a> concluded that failures by federal law enforcement officials played a significant role in the January 6 riot and if those agencies had simply acted on the intelligence they had before hand, they could have prevented the riot.
Former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/fbi-stopped-jan-6-capitol-mob-acted-intelligence-rcna68155" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> his findings to NBC News in an exclusive interview Tuesday, which the Democrat-controlled committee &#8220;left out of its televised hearings and final report.&#8221;
Heaphy said that while former President Donald Trump was &#8220;the proximate cause&#8221; for the events of that day, &#8220;what happened at the Capitol was also affected by law enforcement failures to operationalize the ample intelligence that was present before Jan. 6, about the threats of violence.”
“Law enforcement had a very direct role in contributing to the security failures that led to the violence,” he said. “There was a lot of advance intelligence about law enforcement, about carrying weapons, about the vulnerability of the Capitol. The intel in advance was pretty specific, and it was enough, in our view, for law enforcement to have done a better job.”
The report noted that the highly politicized committee not only chose to downplay his findings, but at times went as far as to &#8220;contradict&#8221; his conclusions.
The report outlined the following conclusions that Heaphy said that investigators found:
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<li>The Capitol Police failed to deploy enough force to defend the building, but the FBI and DHS, the federal agencies charged with collecting intelligence about domestic extremists, didn’t do enough to sound the alarm about the threat.</li>
<li>The FBI and DHS were too cautious about exploiting so-called “open source” intelligence gleaned from social media out of misplaced concern about free speech violations.</li>
<li>The FBI and DHS made a crucial error by not publishing a Joint Intelligence Bulletin about the threats they were seeing, which might have prompted a more robust defense of the Capitol.</li>
<li>There was confusion about which federal agency was in charge, hampering the response once the Capitol was breached.</li>
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Heaphy said that mistakes were made that led to law enforcement not acting on tips they received that violence may break out that day, tips that were submitted weeks in advance.
“Even if individual tips don’t, by themselves, provide enough specific and credible information to take an investigative step, take a step back. If there are 50 such tips, aggregate intelligence suggests, ‘Hey, maybe we have a problem,’” Heaphy said. “That was the failure here.”

Capitol steps

Top January 6 Investigator: FBI, Other Federal Agencies Could Have Stopped Riot If They Did Their Jobs

Crime

Former Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) removed and then reposted a listing on his political action committee website offering signed copies of the official January 6th Committee Report for $100 — which he now says will benefit charity.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-anti-trump-rep-adam-kinzinger-begins-selling-signed-copies-jan-6-committees-final-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the item was <a href="https://shop.country1st.com/products/adam-kinzinger-january-6th-committee-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">listed for sale</a> on the Country First website, owned by the Illinois-based PAC that was started by Kinzinger in July of 2021, after which the listing was briefly removed. It was then reposted with a clarification indicating that the proceeds from all sales of that item would go to charitable causes.
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The listing for Kinzinger-signed copies of the Jan. 6 committee’s final report is now live again, this time stating that “all proceeds will benefit charitable organizations working to uphold and defend democracy in America.”
&mdash; Kyle Morris (@RealKyleMorris) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKyleMorris/status/1615449921930289162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The listing for Kinzinger-signed copies of the Jan. 6 committee’s final report is now live again, this time stating that &#8216;all proceeds will benefit charitable organizations working to uphold and defend democracy in America.'&#8221; Fox News political reporter Kyle Morris explained in the update.
The product&#8217;s full description on the Country First website reads as follows: &#8220;This hard-bound copy of the historical record is offered as a limited edition and signed by Congressman Adam Kinzinger, who served on the committee. All proceeds will benefit the US Capitol Police Memorial Fund.&#8221;
Kinzinger exited Congress after serving six terms, declining to seek re-election when his district was gerrymandered out of existence by Illinois Democrats — but he <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/adam-kinzinger-suggests-he-risked-his-seat-to-save-democracy-democrat-gerrymandering-erased-his-district/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly claimed</a> that he had been forced out because he had done the right thing in opposing former President Donald Trump.
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Rep. Kinzinger: &quot;If I&#39;m going to ask people to be willing to die for this country&#8230;I have to be willing to give up my career for the same cause&#8230;My oath is not to my district, it&#39;s to the Constitution.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/gqL26mh530">https://t.co/gqL26mh530</a> <a href="https://t.co/tM6p3BVnYj">pic.twitter.com/tM6p3BVnYj</a>
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&#8220;I remember thinking, if I’m going to ask people to be willing to die for this country — and obviously I’m going to have to take votes on that and I have — I have to be willing to give up my career for the same cause,&#8221; Kinzinger told MSNBC&#8217;s Nicolle Wallace last November. &#8220;My oath is not to my district, it’s to the Constitution.&#8221;
Kinzinger failed to mention that his district <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/illinois-may-be-the-worst-democratic-gerrymander-in-the-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">had been erased</a> by the new Democrat-drawn district map, which made it mathematically impossible for Republicans to win more than three of Illinois&#8217; 17 districts even though they held five until the new map took effect in 2022.
&#8220;Illinois is the worst gerrymander in the country drawn by Democrats,&#8221; FiveThirtyEight senior elections analyst Nathaniel Rakich wrote.

House Select Committee to Investigate The January 6th Attack On The U.S. Capitol Holds Final Meeting

Anti-Trump Republican Is Selling Autographed Copies Of January 6th Report — For Charity

Adam Kinzinger

Donald Trump

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-twitter-files-twitter-and-the-fbi-belly-button" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Twitter Files&#8221;</a> serve as a model for how U.S. Capitol security footage from January 6, 2021, could be released to the public, House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) said on Sunday.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTi8l3UQK6g&amp;t=93s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McCarthy told Maria Bartiromo</a>, host of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-gives-update-on-fbi-whistleblowers-teases-public-hearings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,”</a> he is looking to release the tapes because of the &#8220;politicization&#8221; he believes has been fostered by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-panel-alerts-white-house-about-anonymous-witnesses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6 Committee</a>.
The speaker referred to how Twitter, under the leadership of CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk,</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave access to troves of internal communications</a> to a group of independent journalists who have been sharing details via &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; threads.
&#8220;The best way to handle this is exactly the way Elon Musk [did]: Just put all the information out there and let people see what is truth and what is not,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;So, the best way to do that is to release the tapes. People can know for themselves instead of picking and choosing what views they want people to see.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a>: I don’t know what’s in the January 6 tapes, but I think they need to be released so the people can see for themselves what transpired. <a href="https://t.co/XXUnM7pUWD">pic.twitter.com/XXUnM7pUWD</a>
&mdash; The Dirty Truth (Josh) (@AKA_RealDirty) <a href="https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1614665693940838402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Capitol Police say the system of cameras captured more than <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/capitol-police-jan6-footage-478439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14,000 hours of footage</a> between noon and 8 p.m. on the day a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.
One particular member of the House Republican conference, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-gaetz" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Gaetz</a> (R-FL), has hit the airwaves insisting this footage &#8220;would give more full context to that day rather than the cherry-picked moments the January 6 Committee tried to use to inflame and further divide our country.&#8221;
In an interview with CNN, Gaetz said the footage could provide exculpatory evidence to January 6 defendants. He also dismissed concerns about how disclosing the tapes could jeopardize security. &#8220;I think that it&#8217;s an argument made by the Department of Justice because they don&#8217;t want to expose the extent to which there might have been federal assets or agents enhancing criminal acuity,&#8221; he said.
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&quot;I think that it&#39;s an argument made by the DOJ because they don&#39;t want to expose the extent to which there might have been federal assets or agents enhancing criminal acuity.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Jv1Fycyfyz">pic.twitter.com/Jv1Fycyfyz</a>
&mdash; The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) <a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1614651589431824384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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McCarthy told reporters last week he wants to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-says-hes-engaged-to-release-january-6-security-footage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;very thoughtful&#8221;</a> about releasing Capitol security footage but stressed that he is &#8220;engaged to do that.&#8221;
The speaker told Bartiromo on Sunday that he had not yet seen the videos.
&#8220;I just think they should be released,&#8221; he added.

Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy Shares ‘Best Way’ To Release January 6 Tapes

Kevin McCarthy Shares 'Best Way' To Release January 6 Tapes

Department of Justice

U.S. House of Representatives

The January 6 Committee ended its year-and-a-half-long investigation without releasing publicly several pieces of evidence.
Last month, the panel <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/jan-6-committee-final-report/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released its final report</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-charges-jan-6-panel-considered-but-did-not-approve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommended charges</a> against former President Donald Trump, and began to <a href="https://january6th.house.gov/media-center/select-committee-witness-materials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release hundreds of witness materials</a>. But because the panel disbanded at the start of the new session of Congress, it cannot release the information that has been sent to the National Archives, <a href="https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/01-12-2023/jan6-panel-withholds-some-evidence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Politico</a>.
Undisclosed materials include text messages between key witness Cassidy Hutchinson and other Trump administration officials, as well as the transcript of an interview conducted with Robert Engel, the Secret Service agent who led former President Donald Trump&#8217;s security detail on January 6, 2021.
The full testimony of Engel and Anthony Ornato, a now-former Secret Service and White House aide, remains a significant source of intrigue as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/12/new-evidence-show-trump-was-warned-violence-jan-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">anonymous Secret Service sources told the media</a> they were ready to dispute Hutchinson&#8217;s account of being told by Ornato that Trump lunged at Engel inside the presidential SUV on January 6, 2021, when Trump was informed they were not going to drive to the U.S. Capitol after his speech on the White House Ellipse.
&#8220;No excuse why Bobby Engel’s transcript can’t be released,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1613916216879648768" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted American Greatness senior writer Julie Kelly</a>. &#8220;The only reason to bury it is because he contradicted what Casidy [sic] Hutchinson said about the physical encounter with Trump. GOP should demand it.&#8221;
The January 6 Committee <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CHAIR-VICE-CHAIR-LETTER-TO-DHS/pdf/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CHAIR-VICE-CHAIR-LETTER-TO-DHS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said in a letter</a> to the Homeland Security Department requests by Secret Service lawyers and private attorneys for Secret Service agents to keep certain information and records withheld from public disclosure. Another letter from Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-panel-alerts-white-house-about-anonymous-witnesses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned the White House</a> they could not ensure the confidentiality of certain witnesses once Republicans took over the House.
In one transcript that was released for an interview with Ornato, Ornato <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1613932909504729091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said he could not recall</a> the alleged altercation in the SUV. Politico&#8217;s Kyle Cheney <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1613918028818784258" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted the panel did not release transcripts</a> of two prior interviews the committee conducted with Ornato after which members questioned his honesty. The January 6 Committee said in its final report that it regarded Hutchinson and corroborating testimony from another White House official &#8220;as earnest and has no reason to conclude that either had a reason to invent their accounts.&#8221;
Other materials that were never released include text messages from Ivanka Trump, the former president&#8217;s daughter and White House adviser, that were referenced in her interview, as well as text messages between a top aide to former Vice President Mike Pence and an aide to Sen. Ron Johnson (W-WI) referenced by the January 6 Committee during one of its public hearings, per Politico.
The January 6 Committee appears to have not released publicly about 30 gigabytes worth of evidence, specifically exhibits to the transcripts that were disclosed with redactions, federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing this week as part of a <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23571551/oathkeepers.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case against several members of the Oath Keepers</a>.
While working to woo GOP holdouts in his bid to become speaker, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) <a href="https://punchbowl.news/rules-package-highlights/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1/2/23%20%20Punchbowl%20News%20AM&amp;utm_term=Punchbowl%20AM%20and%20Active%20Subscribers%20from%20Memberful%20Combined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed to a provision</a> in the House rules package for the new session of Congress to demand the <a href="https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules118.house.gov/files/BILLS-118hresPIH-118th-rules-of-the-house-of-reps-V3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transfer of records</a> from the January 6 Committee to the House Administration Committee by January 17.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on Wednesday that McCarthy vowed to release 14,000 hours of U.S. Capitol security footage from January 6, when a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. McCarthy told reporters on Thursday the American public &#8220;should see&#8221; what happened on that day. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking through that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I want to be very thoughtful about it. But yes, I&#8217;m engaged to do that.&#8221;

Cassidy Hutchinson

Evidence The January 6 Committee Never Released

Secret Service

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said Thursday he is pushing for the disclosure of unreleased U.S. Capitol security footage from January 6, 2021.
Taking a shot at the January 6 Committee and its &#8220;report that&#8217;s written for a political basis,&#8221; McCarthy told reporters on Capitol Hill the American public &#8220;should see&#8221; what happened on that day. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking through that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I want to be very thoughtful about it. But yes, I&#8217;m engaged to do that.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerMcCarthy</a> says he’s going to release all of the security footage from January 6. <a href="https://t.co/RHaSnwJDAp">pic.twitter.com/RHaSnwJDAp</a>
&mdash; The Dirty Truth (Josh) (@AKA_RealDirty) <a href="https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1613575243137781773?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The comments follow Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) saying on Wednesday that McCarthy &#8220;told us he&#8217;s going to get the evidence out in front of the American people and that means releasing the 14,000 hours of tapes that have been hidden.&#8221;
Gaetz, who was speaking with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, added that the footage &#8220;would give more full context to that day rather than the cherry-picked moments the January 6 Committee tried to use to inflame and further divide our country.&#8221;
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Rep. Matt Gaetz: The American people are finally going to get the truth about Jan 6. <a href="https://t.co/Lcz2EdfwhI">pic.twitter.com/Lcz2EdfwhI</a>
&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1612908248797175809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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On January 6, 2021, a crowd of people entered the U.S. Capitol, disrupting lawmakers meeting to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. A system of cameras in and around the Capitol captured more than <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/29/capitol-police-jan6-footage-478439" target="_blank" rel="noopener">14,000 hours of footage</a> between noon and 8 p.m. that day, according to the Capitol Police. Though congressional committees controlled by Democrats, law enforcement, and more were given access to the archive, the Capitol Police warned that attorneys for January 6 defendants should not be given the footage without &#8220;safeguards in place to prevent its copy and dissemination,&#8221; and the <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-footage-lawsuit-release-insurrection" target="_blank" rel="noopener">government raised national security concerns</a>.
After a year and a half of investigations and hearings which featured some security video clips, the January 6 Committee last month <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/jan-6-committee-final-report/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released its final report</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-trump-charges-jan-6-panel-considered-but-did-not-approve" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommended charges</a> against former President Donald Trump, and began to <a href="https://january6th.house.gov/media-center/select-committee-witness-materials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">release dozens of witness materials</a>. McCarthy was one of several House Republicans the January 6 Committee recommended for <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-REPORT/pdf/GPO-J6-REPORT.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ethics sanctions</a> after defying its subpoenas.
House Republicans conducted their own investigation without subpoena power and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6th-was-pelosis-fault-house-republicans-investigative-report-unveils-counter-narrative-of-u-s-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released a rebuttal report</a> that Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), the leader of the effort, said &#8220;exposes the partisanship, incompetence and indifference that led to the disaster on January 6 and it the leading role Speaker Pelosi and her office played in the security failure at the Capitol.&#8221;
McCarthy withdrew his five picks for the January 6 Committee in the summer of 2021 and selected five Republicans to be part of the Republican investigation after Pelosi refused to allow Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to become members. Instead, Pelosi picked Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) to be part of the committee.
While working to woo GOP holdouts in his bid to become speaker, McCarthy <a href="https://punchbowl.news/rules-package-highlights/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=1/2/23%20%20Punchbowl%20News%20AM&amp;utm_term=Punchbowl%20AM%20and%20Active%20Subscribers%20from%20Memberful%20Combined" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed to a provision</a> in the House rules package for the new session of Congress to demand the <a href="https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules118.house.gov/files/BILLS-118hresPIH-118th-rules-of-the-house-of-reps-V3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transfer of records</a> from the January 6th Committee to the House Administration Committee by January 17. The resolution also included the establishment of a select committee to investigate the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-to-start-committee-on-weaponization-of-the-federal-government-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;weaponization&#8221; of the federal government</a>.

Kevin McCarthy Says He’s ‘Engaged’ To Release January 6 Security Footage

South Dakota Gov. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kristi-noem">Kristi Noem</a> (R) is looking for answers after the federal government leaked her social security number — and those of her family members — in the public release of records from the January 6 House committee.
Noem publicly shared the letter that her lawyers sent to federal agencies to demand a response over the publicly disclosed information in a Twitter post on Friday.
&#8220;My lawyers have asked the @WhiteHouse, the @USNatArchives, and @BennieGThompson which of them is responsible for leaking the Social Security Numbers of me, my husband, my 3 kids, and my son-in-law,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;What specific measures and remedies will be taken to protect our identities?&#8221;
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My lawyers have asked the <a href="https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WhiteHouse</a>, the <a href="https://twitter.com/USNatArchives?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USNatArchives</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/BennieGThompson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BennieGThompson</a> which of them is responsible for leaking the Social Security Numbers of me, my husband, my 3 kids, and my son-in-law.
What specific measures and remedies will be taken to protect our identities? <a href="https://t.co/HWBu5ukWPP">pic.twitter.com/HWBu5ukWPP</a>
&mdash; Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1611500140971413504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Noem&#8217;s leaked social security numbers were posted alongside the private information of nearly 2,000 others in a file of high-profile visitors to the White House in December 2020.
&#8220;The National Archives produced these visitors logs, which then became exhibits during the January 6 Committee hearing. Prior to being published as exhibits, the law required that Protected Personal Information be redacted from the visitor logs, but that was not done,&#8221; the letter from Noem&#8217;s lawyers read.
The letter argued that the publication of the governor&#8217;s and of her family&#8217;s private information is a violation of the Privacy Act of 1974 and could lead to further legal action. The lawyers are requesting a response by January 13 from those involved.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/january-6-committee-releases-social-security-numbers-of-top-trump-officials-republican-governors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Friday that after the committee’s last public meeting last month, it released a trove of official records, testimonies, transcripts, and other information that it collected as part of its investigation into the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. One of those documents was a spreadsheet containing nearly 2,000 Social Security numbers of White House guests in December 2020.
Among the Social Security numbers on the list, since removed from the files, was information associated with at least three Trump cabinet members, several Republican governors, and numerous officials and allies, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/06/social-security-numbers-jan-6-committee-documents/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. Some of the other leaders whose personal information was leaked included Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R), and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.
On November 30, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wrote a letter to committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) demanding that the January 6 committee preserve all records from its investigation.
&#8220;You have spent a year and a half and millions of taxpayers&#8217; dollars conducting this investigation. It is imperative that all information be preserved not just for institutional prerogatives but for transparency to the American people,&#8221; McCarthy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-instructs-jan-6-committee-preserve-documents-gop-house-takeover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;The official Congressional Records do not belong to you or any member, but to the American people, and they are owed all the information you gathered – not merely the information that comports with your political agenda.&#8221;
Noem&#8217;s letter from her lawyers also came one day ahead of the <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1611835847485128704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inauguration</a> of her second term as governor of South Dakota.

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