Mike Johnson Admits To Obstructing Justice By Altering J6 Video

[turbinetree]

The Speaker of the House is blurring faces in order to stop the DOJ from prosecuting them. I'm fairly sure that's called obstruction of justice.

By Karoli Kuns — December 5, 2023

Obstruction of justice is defined by Merriam-Webster as "the crime or act of willfully interfering with the process of justice and law especially by influencing, threatening, harming, or impeding a witness, potential witness, juror, or judicial or legal officer or by furnishing false information in or otherwise impeding an investigation or legal process.

One might imagine that altering real-time video of the January 6 insurrection in order to deter the DOJ from bringing charges against insurrectionists in the building might fit that definition, and is a crime committed against our democracy and the United States constitution. That's not something a Speaker of the House should do, am I right? After all, every one of those Representatives took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and "bear true faith and allegiance to the same."

Those January 6 rioters were there to stop the electoral vote count, also a violation of the Constitution. While many have been identified and prosecuted, many have not.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/12/mike-johnson-admits-altering-j6-video

This little self righteous jerk took an oath to defend and protect the rule of law and this jerk is now second from the presidency.....let's really think about this.....this "guy" is just as dangerous as the mouth flapping classified document stealing jerk in Florida ......and there are many down in that state.....what exactly is the right wing fascists party platform......oh yeah take down a duly elected democracy .............and install the Heritage Foundation 2025...... fascists programs .....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He sure did obstruct justice. Throw the damn book at him.

[republianmushroom]

2. And what is the DoJ going to do ?

[onecaliberal]

14. Not a damn thing. Watch us lose democracy while they sit and spin.

[republianmushroom]

20. Agree.

[Ocelot II]

3. DOJ has the unaltered video, so Johnson isn't guilty of tampering

with any evidence DOJ didn't already have. What he's trying to do is make it more difficult for DOJ to track down the still-unindicted insurrectionists with the help of the public, which is how they've identified and caught a lot of them. The better description of what he's done is obstruction of justice.

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. So why can't the DOJ release the real footage?

Or the Senate or WH? Why is this solely in the House's domain? Surely, Schumer could release as they were also impacted by those events.

[Ocelot II]

8. I recall some talking heads saying that DOJ doesn't want to release

all the raw footage because it would reveal sensitive info, especially the locations of security devices, cameras, etc.

[OAITW r.2.0]

9. If Mike releases all of the tapes, there goes Congressional security....

And the secret security cam footage would throw that concern out the window.

[Ocelot II]

10. Yup.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Are those videos MAGAt Mike's personal property, or ours?

[dweller]

5. I'm pretty sure AI can

Replace the blurred faces with Mike Johnson faces …
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[Marcuse]

6. He will have to blur faces to protect the guilty.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. As usual, the GOP shot themselves in the foot.

Every time they do something to hurt democrats, it boomerangs back and hits them square in the nuts.

This time, Johnson released that video to make Biden and the Dept Of Justice look petty, but what happened was people were calling the FBI to report their exes, former business partners, and people who owe them money.

Mike Johnson ended up helping the FBI identify Trumper criminals.

[former9thward]

17. No, the faces and bodies are blurred.

Where are you getting that information?

[JohnnyRingo]

18. They blurred the faces after reports of new arrests started coming in.

He released the videos on their website last week. this week he's blurring the faces.

The FBI has had the raw videos since day one, but were still working to ID people. When Johnson released the video to the general population, he opened a new floodgate of indictments. ooops!

[former9thward]

19. No he announced beforehand he was going to blur.

I have seen no floodgate of new indictments. Where do you see it?

[JohnnyRingo]

24. Right here in DU

Nov 17, 2023 - ...November 17th!
Politics & Policy

Mike Johnson to release 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Friday announced the public release of more than 40,000 hours of Capitol security footage from Jan. 6, 2021.

Why it matters: The move meets a key demand of the Republicans' right flank as conservatives simmer at Johnson for passing a stopgap spending bill along bipartisan lines.

What they're saying: "Today, we will begin immediately posting video on a public website and move as quickly as possible to add to the website nearly all of the footage, more than 40,000 hours," Johnson said.




https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/mike-johnson-capitol-jan-6-security-footage

They began releasing the videos November 17th. This week he said they will go back and blur the faces.

[Paladin]

12. Just another trump-sucking scofflaw.

What are we going to do about this, Democrats?

[AllaN01Bear]

13. snork. so when are we going to arrest him? never.

[mike_c]

15. does anyone really think the DOJ doesn't already have every minute...

...of raw security camera video from the U.S. Capital on Jan. 6?

[Fla Dem]

16. I would like to think he got copies, not the originals.

Remember all those films will some day end up in the National Archives, if they're not there already. The Justice Department has probably been working with copies all along.

[brooklynite]

21. He's doing many things, but he's not "obstructing justice"

DOJ would have requested the unedited video way back in 2021. The release now is just for public consumption.

[Warpy]

22. Charges, please, if he doesn't release the unaltered videos NOW.

They all think they can lie, cheat, steal, and kill as long as they do it for Jebus, who looks a lot like TFG these days.

[ancianita]

23. Johnson might very well be named an aider/abetter prior to Jan 6.

Investigations of Congress people are ongoing right now.

Link to tweet

What are Democrats going to do about a guy who uses tapes to defend Trump and his fellow aiders/abetters in the court of public opinion? Nothing. Still, I'd like to see what Rep. Dan Goldman says about this.

Maybe Johnson's off the hook for being charged as an 'accessory after the fact' by using the "speech and debate" lol clause for congresspeople. But being an accessory after the fact is pretty much what he's doing.