McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to ALL Jan 6 security footage?

[steve...]

This seems almost criminal. Do other media outlets NOT get access?

CNN

McCarthy gives Tucker Carlson access to January 6 Capitol security footage, sources say

CNN — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has granted Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to all of the US Capitol security footage from January 6, multiple sources told CNN.

The highly unusual move – a House speaker handing over a massive trove of internal government materials to a friendly media outlet – comes after the California Republican faced significant pressure from his right flank to relitigate the work of the House select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, insurrection.

During his bid for the speakership, McCarthy vowed to hold hearings on the security failures that led to the Capitol getting overrun, and he told the select committee to preserve all of its records for potential future review by the newly empowered GOP majority.

Carlson has been one of the most prominent promoters of January 6 conspiracy theories. Most notably, he has devoted significant airtime to the false claim that liberal “deep state” partisans within the FBI orchestrated the insurrection as a way to undermine former President Donald Trump. He has conducted sympathetic interviews with some of the rioters who were subsequently charged by the Justice Department.

[Ted King]

[gadje]

Why does he need this?

So now Carlson can cherry pick and take short video clips out of context to prove that TRUMP was innocent and the Democrats are guilty? :RollingEyesSmiley5:

EDIT: he beat me by a few seconds, -D

[Acer]

The trove should be made available to all news outlets if one outlet is allowed access. Those records belong to the People. You know, the ones mentioned in the Constitution?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Acer wrote:
The trove should be made available to all news outlets if one outlet is allowed access. Those records belong to the People. You know, the ones mentioned in the Constitution?

Don't worry - the other news outlets will NOT let this pass without comment or action.

[Ca Bob]

I hope the Dominion case goes to trial and that Dominion calls Carlson as a witness.

[Dennis S]

Will the already-sentenced traitors get mistrials because they didn’t have access to them?

[Ted King]

I think they'll show that most of the time most of the mob were just following other people in the mob following other people in the mob and therefore, conclude that not much of anything happened and the "establishment" and Democrats demonized those poor sightseers for political gain.

Of course, if you have a warehouse that's got surveillance cameras everywhere they are going to collectively produce hundreds of hours of not much happening at night when nobody is there. But then there's that few that show a group of crooks bash down a door, rush in and grab hundreds of thousand of dollars worth of goodies. Should we conclude from all those hundreds of hours of collective recordings where nothing happened that pretty much nothing happened?

[DeusxMac]

Ted King wrote:
I think they'll show that most of the time most of the mob were just following other people in the mob following other people in the mob and therefore, conclude that not much of anything happened and the "establishment" and Democrats demonized those poor sightseers for political gain.

By definition...

mob - noun
a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence

[deckeda]

This is really funny. Fox will spin the video for Fox viewers, and no one else will consider it credible.