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The decision by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to hand 41,000 hours of Jan. 6 video exclusively to Fox News might satisfy demands for transparency in some quarters, but one experienced video investigator decried the arrangement.
“All of the American people need to be able to access the complete footage from January 6,” said William Pope of Topeka, Kansas, a Jan. 6 defendant who spent countless hours examining video evidence.
“For two years, the Department of Justice has selectively leaked footage to shape their preferred narratives. And for two years, Democrats in Congress worked to ‘establish’ their own narrative,” Pope told The Epoch Times. “Now, it is being reported that Republicans may only give access to select members of the media to control their own narrative.
“While Tucker Carlson does a great job of amplifying information and has been one of the few in media to support Jan. 6 defendants,” Pope said, “he shouldn’t be the lone gatekeeper of Jan. 6 video.
“Tucker also doesn’t have researchers on staff who have spent thousands of hours analyzing how the events of Jan. 6 unfolded. He could get much better content if the video were available to everyone and review was crowdsourced to the internet.”
Defense attorney Brad Geyer said the crowd-sourcing function has been stifled under court-imposed protective orders that kept the video hidden.
“Blanket court-imposed protective orders prevented upwards of 40,000 hours of CCTV footage and MPD body cam from being seen or reviewed by members of the public,” Geyer told The Epoch Times. “The crowd-sourcing function that the public would ordinarily provide the system was short circuited.
“Each J6 defense was responsible for its own video review, requiring each to reinvent the wheel each time,” Geyer said. “As a result, inflammatory clips played on an endless loop in the evening on Jan. 6 were burned into the national psyche, convincing everyone that these unrepresentative samples explained everything when they explained nothing.
