Mike Johnson Says He Has to “Blur” A few of the Faces of Individuals Who Seem in January 6 Footage So the DOJ Can’t Cost Them With Crimes

When newly elected Home Speaker Mike Johnson introduced final month that he would publicly launch hundreds of hours of January 6 footage, bowing to the calls for of far-right conservatives, he mentioned that his motive for doing so was all about transparency. The choice, he claimed, “will present tens of millions of People…a capability to see for themselves what occurred that day.” Besides, y’know, not a lot!

In a very unimaginable second on Tuesday, Johnson advised reporters that his group will launch the footage as shortly as it will possibly, however that the method has been delayed by the truth that they’re blurring out some folks’s faces. And what, you would possibly ask, is their motive for doing this? They don’t need these folks to be charged with crimes by the Justice Division. (No, actually—that’s truly what he mentioned!)

“We belief the American folks to attract their very own conclusions,” Johnson advised the press. “They shouldn’t be dictated by some narrative and settle for that as truth. To allow them to assessment the tapes themselves. We’re going by means of a methodical technique of releasing them as shortly as we will, as, , we’ve got to blur among the faces of individuals who participated within the occasions of that day, as a result of we don’t need them to be retaliated in opposition to and to be charged by the DOJ, and to produce other, y’know, considerations and issues.”

This was clearly an extremely damning second, as evidenced by the truth that Johnson’s workplace instantly sought to make clear his feedback, saying in a statement on social media: “Faces are to be blurred from public viewing room footage to forestall all types of retaliation in opposition to personal residents from any non-governmental actors. The Division of Justice already has entry to uncooked footage from January 6, 2021.” Whereas that’s true, for some motive it was the authorized peril of showing within the footage—and possibly committing crimes—that was apparently at high of thoughts for Johnson.

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