It’s about time.
News outlets demand access to Jan. 6 footage McCarthy gave to Tucker Carlson
by Jared Gans, The Hill — 02/25/23
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Attorney Charles Tobin sent a letter on Thursday on behalf of 10 media organizations to congressional leadership to request all closed-circuit camera footage recorded inside the Capitol and on the grounds outside the building as was given to Carlson.
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The outlets included in the coalition are Advance Publications, ABC, Axios, CNN, CBS, The E.W. Scripps Company, Gannett, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and ProPublica.
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Tobin said that the outlets agree with McCarthy that the public’s interest is in the release of the footage and cited a federal appeals court case that found the government cannot selectively exclude certain outlets from information that is otherwise publicly available.
“Without full public access to the complete historical record, there is concern that an ideologically-based narrative of an already polarizing event will take hold in the public consciousness, with destabilizing risks to the legitimacy of Congress, the Capitol Police, and the various federal investigations and prosecutions of January 6 crimes,” the letter states.
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The 10 media organizations also sent McCarthy a FOIA request for the same J6 video footage — that Kevin handed over to Tucker Carlson, to weaponize as he sees fit.
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Here’s coverage of this breaking story by the MeidasTouch, from host Ben Meiselas:
McCarthy GETS SERVED with records request for being a traitor
As Meiselas says, it is the GOP who are continuing to “weaponize the Government” — despite their projection committees to the contrary.
Heh Kevin, it wasn’t the Dems who organized a coup attempt, and conspired with state legislatures to send in false slates of Electors. Nope. That is solely and entirely the “weaponizing work” of the GOP. Taking their orders from a narcissist — who has erased the word LOSER from his already meager vocabulary.
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