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Speaker Johnson Explains Holdup In Releasing Jan 6 Tapes: ‘We Have To Blur Some Of The Faces’ To Protect Them From The DOJ (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Viking_Hippie to c/nottheonion

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[–] Viking_Hippie 202 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It is the exact textbook definition of obstruction of justice. It doesn't get any more obstruction of justice than to literally hide identities with the express stated goal of obstructing the work of the Department of Justice.

He's taking a page out of Trump’s "it's not a crime if you brag about it on tv" playbook.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey everybody, we doin' crimes and shit. Whatchu gonna do about it

[–] Viking_Hippie 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have the perfect username to make that comment 😆👌

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He killed me with a sword, how weird is that

[–] Viking_Hippie 2 points 1 year ago

Signal still going though, though, so you were vindicated on THAT 🤷

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Fortunately for the FBI, and for anyone who still believes in democracy, most of these idiots brought their smartphones with them so video hasn't even been necessary to secure convictions. And lots of them recorded video themselves, OF themselves, in order to brag about their crimes online.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course, why take precautions? They didn't expect to lose. They expected King Trump to be crowned and bring his chosen people to paradise, and they wanted to make sure they weren't left out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, although something tells me that a lot of them aren't exactly the type who think very far ahead regardless of what they expected the outcome of that day to be.

[–] Mamertine 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They then uploaded the videos to parlor which had no security on their API, so anyone with the address could download every video.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That's hilarious, I forgot about that part. Parlor probably didn't bother to strip out the metadata either, did they? So, full GPS coordinates with every image and video... hahahaha