transparency was never the goal here— this was only ever meant to be (yet another) slow-trickle distraction from Trump’s trials and tribble-ations.
Yeah because they are blurring out faces to cover up any crimes committed by the people shown in the videos
Except law enforcement already has all the tapes, it’s all for theatre.
People would definitely use these tapes to identify new people to charge or otherwise publicly shame.
Those groups of people already have archived footage from the Jan. 6 insurrectionist who thought it was a good idea to vlog a felony. Is also a lot of footage from people/journalists that have footage knowing it would be useful to identify these people later on. The GOP blurring face on video is just show, and they will never actually release all the footage because at some point they will need the intern working on it for something else, and their base won’t know/care anyway.
And that hurts the sedition hunters. Bad deal for all of us.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Months after winning a majority and control of the House, Republicans on the committee opened a Capitol Hill screening room to allow members of the public to view hours of the security video.
He ran fleeting clips of the video, showing some of the movements about the Capitol before or in between the violent outbursts that forced lawmakers to evacuate, resulted in the injuries of more than 140 police officers and halted the certification of electoral votes in the 2020 election.
Carlson’s claims fueled criticism that by releasing the video, House Republicans were seeking to provide political cover for former President Trump, who is charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election and accused of directing the mob to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who was a member of the House Jan. 6 select committee that probed the attack and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, told CBS News the videos could be misused to underwrite more false claims.
A spokesman later clarified Johnson’s statement: "Faces are to be blurred from public viewing room footage to prevent all forms of retaliation against private citizens from any non-governmental actors.
The time and editing technology needed to blur faces will further prolong an already laborious process to upload the video, according to multiple congressional staffers who spoke with CBS News.
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