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Jan 6 Committee Members Never Reviewed Surveillance Footage of Capitol Riot

In stunning admission, the chairman of the J6 committee now confesses he never analyzed any footage before running the made-for-TV show trial with Liz Cheney.

[b]Chair of the January 6 Committee Bennie Thompson says that neither he nor members of the Committee, including Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, never personally viewed surveillance footage taken from the Capitol on that fateful day in 2021.[/b]

CNN political reporter Alayna Treene posted this revelation to Twitter by way of describing the process for lawmakers with the 118th Congress to view the material.

Treene said that Bennie Thompson [b]"said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress. 'It’s strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place,' he told CNN."[/b]

"Thompson," Treene continued, "said [b]he doesn’t think any of the Jan. 6 members themselves ever had access to the footage — they let only staff view it.[/b] 'I'm actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. [b]We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video.'"[/b]

https://thepostmillennial.com/jan-6-committee-chairman-bennie-thompson-didnt-have-access-to-surveillance-footage-from-capitol-riot?utm_campaign=64487
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windinhishair · 61-69, M
Why is this surprising in any way? Fucker Carlson hasn't reviewed the footage either, nor has Speaker McCarthy. And why not? Because there are over 40,000 hours of surveillance video. For the mathematically-challenged (i.e., the GOP) that is close to five years of footage. The only way to review it is to rely on staff to review it and screen it. The January 6 Committee did it, and Carlson has had an even more cursory review. No single individual has reviewed it, since it has only been a little over two years since the armed insurrection and attempted coup. Even if someone started reviewing it on January 7 and has been watching 24/7/365 since then, they wouldn't even be halfway through it yet.
@windinhishair I think the trick here is in the word "reviewed." The Committee certainly saw footage because they released it on the news regularly. There's some misleading use of "review" here that allows them to make a demonstrably false claim.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-in-new-jan-6-footage-pelosi-and-schumer-shelter-and-call-for-help-during-capitol-attack

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-jan-6-committee-shows-new-footage-of-capitol-attack
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@ElwoodBlues Of course the Committee reviewed key parts of the video. They lived through it and were directly impacted by it. But it is disingenuous for the OP to suggest that because no one watched all 40,000+ hours of it that none of the conclusions are valid.