What's Behind Dems' Disingenuous Jan. 6 Tape Hysteria?

Concerns aren't about national security, they're about narrative security

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McCarthy's Release of January 6 Footage Offers Hope for Clarity

When it comes to January 6, 2021, a day cynically cast by Democrats as equivalent to 9/11, Pearl Harbor, and the depths of the Civil War to smear and target the "deplorable" half of the country, Democrats demand that you believe them, and not your lying eyes.

The reality is that they can't handle your handling of the truth.

That's the dirty secret behind their outrage over House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) decision to fulfill a commitment to release the 44,000 hours of January 6 footage the U.S. Capitol Police had been sitting on—outrage further stoked because the process will begin with reporting on the tapes by the Ruling Class's preeminent bête noire, Tucker Carlson.

In a new piece at Newsweek, I deconstruct Democrats’ disingenuous arguments against releasing the tapes generally, and to Tucker Carlson initially.

Here’s a taste:

Democrats and their Deep State allies have repeatedly cried "State secrets!" to cover up the corruption, politicization, and weaponization of a national security apparatus that has dutifully done the Left's bidding—stonewalling, redacting, and burying materials that would plainly reveal such lawlessness and misconduct.

Remember the controversy over releasing Russiagate's "Nunes Memo?" How about over naming Ukrainegate's "whistleblower?"

War and Peace-length tomes could be written about the former case—a Russiagate scandal in which critical documents ordered declassified by the sitting president himself still haven't seen the light of day.

In the case of January 6, Democratic lawmakers are arguably more heavily implicated than their Deep State partners.

It was then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), after all, who was disproportionately responsible for the U.S. Capitol security lapses.

That's in part why it was imperative for her to turn the January 6 Committee into a sham, Soviet-style show trial led by Democrats and Trump-hating "Republicans"—so that Pelosi's own culpability could never be scrutinized.

The argument from Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Benny Thompson (D-MS) that McCarthy releasing the January 6 tapes poses a national security risk must be considered against this background.

Further belying the Democrats' cynical argument is that in virtually every other context, they seem so little concerned with security—treating it as a provocation, or an act of aggression. I continue:

The Democrats, after all, are the party of "defund the police," no-cash bail, and pro-crime prosecutors—a party uniquely culpable for the massive spike in violent crime and general dysfunction in cities Democrats control.

They are the party of open borders.

Democrats certainly didn't care about security during the Antifa-Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.

They didn't care about security when progressive activists illegally—and with total impunity—protested outside U.S. Supreme Court justices' homes in an attempt to intimidate them into flipping their votes in the Dobbs abortion case decided last summer.

Democrats had no qualms about security risks when they released Capitol Police footage they felt was beneficial to their political case, via the January 6 Committee.

And apparently, they didn't much care for security on January 6 itself. The 44,000 hours of footage should corroborate this.

And that is precisely the point—the very reason Democrats don't want you to see the footage.

Read the whole thing here.