US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said that tens of thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, will be fully released to the public.
This came after Fox News host Tucker Carlson showed never-before-seen clips from such footage earlier this week. McCarthy said that the tapes would be made public, but that they needed to be reviewed in full to mitigate any concerns.
He added that the move was aimed at achieving transparency, as different news organizations often get exclusives. He compared the coverage of January 6 by CNN, which he said had received exclusives with no complaint, to the coverage of the event by other media outlets.
McCarthy’s comments have attracted attention, as the footage Carlson aired undercut some narratives that the January 6 select committee and many in establishment media put forward.
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Tens of thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, will be fully released to the public. The footage Carlson aired undercut some narratives that the January 6 select committee and many in establishment media put forward.
McCarthy said that the tapes would be made public, but that they needed to be reviewed in full to mitigate any concerns.
McCarthy said that the move was aimed at achieving transparency, as different news organizations often get exclusives.
McCarthy compared the coverage of January 6 by CNN, which he said had received exclusives with no complaint, to the coverage of the event by other media outlets. The move to release the footage has drawn mixed reactions from politicians and the public.
Some people see it as an opportunity to get a clearer picture of what happened that day, while others view it as a political stunt aimed at deflecting attention from the real issues facing the country.
It remains to be seen what impact the release of the footage will have on the ongoing investigations into the events of January 6.
