House Speaker Mike Johnson said that the release of Jan. 6 security footage has been delayed in order to blur the faces of rioters.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised to release more than 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6 to the public, with one major caveat: The faces of some individuals who participated in the storming of the Capitol, a violent attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election, will be blurred out.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson said that “the release of the January 6 tapes is a critical and important exercise, we want transparency … we trust — House Republicans trust — the American people to draw their own conclusions.”

Johnson added that the party is going “through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can” and that they “have to blur some of the faces of the persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against, and to be charged by the DOJ and to have other, you know, concerns and problems.”

  • penquin@lemm.ee
    61·
    1 year ago

    I’m relatively new to this country, has it been always a joke like this? Politics are fucking hilarious here. Wtf is going on?

    • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.caEnglish
      32·
      1 year ago

      Where are you from? From what I gather (not American) after Obama won the right went ape shit.

      • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
        14·
        1 year ago

        Also not American, and from what I gathered I think Nixon and the Bushes also contributed a lot to the enshitification of the USA.

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          Things were pretty fucked up before. But racist bigots like Nixon and Reagan calling to their kin post 1964. Absolutely contributed massively to the polarization, and the party of hate. That is the Republican party today. They definitely weren’t the first though. I think it needs to be pointed out repeatedly. Since our history lessons in the United States tend to be whitewashed heavily. But the Republican party was planning an attempted fascist overthrow here in the 1930s. Just like Hitler. They were caught but never actually punished for it. And have only spent the intervening 100 years laying better plans and putting more groundwork in place for their fascist overthrow. They’ve gotten quite far on it as well. You yourself mentioning the son and grandson of the person they most likely intended to install as dictator being presidents.

          • Billiam@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 year ago

            Don’t forget Congressional shitstains like Dennis “Child Molester” Hastert, Newt “It is a mortal sin for a President to get a blowjob but just fine for me to cheat on my wife while she’s dying of cancer” Gingrich, and Mitch “I got super rich after marrying a Chinese transportation company owner’s daughter nothing suspicious there” McConnell. They all made working across the aisle anathema for Republicans.

        • Furbag@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          Don’t forget good ol’ Ronnie Reagan, the archdemon behind every shitty American policy.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        “hilarious” in a very very sad and scary sense is what I meant. It’s totally fucked up. Both parties are busy fighting each other over power and their citizens are barely making it. Healthcare system is an absolute disaster. Education system is shit. Infrastructure is becoming 3rd world level. Literally the country is falling apart.

      • penquin@lemm.ee
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been here 13, and just tried to get into politics a couple of years ago, and man do I hate it and find it very messy. Im now questioning my decision to get involved. I was a much happier person before.