House Republican shares what is holding up release of Jan. 6 footage: ‘Insurrection hunters’

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) revealed what is holding up the release of all 44,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage to the public, sharing that the tapes must be released in “waves” due to “sensitive data” that need to be dealt with before the release.

In an interview on Newsmax’s The Chris Salcedo Show, Loudermilk gave a timeline for the full release of the Jan. 6 footage. “We’re looking at weeks into a few months, and the reason is technology,” he said.

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“We want to protect innocent people,” Loudermilk said, expressing fear at what might happen if certain entities are able to identify the individuals who were at the Capitol. “We can use technology to blur out the faces of innocent people and still release the full videos.”

The Georgia Republican lambasted “insurrection hunters” who are “looking to go after” anyone who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6. He revealed that he was “falsely accused of giving reconnaissance tours of the Capitol” and characterized the accusation as “asinine.”

Loudermilk claimed, “The Select Committee on Jan. 6 doxxed the name and information of one of the people that just visited my office that day — did not even come to the Capitol on Jan. 6. No one who came to my office did — and he’s already been fired from a job.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has also been vocal about the release of the Jan. 6 footage, initially demanding the full footage be made available to the public before backtracking in June over concerns of “sedition hunters” using facial recognition software to identify and possibly dox those who were at the Capitol that day.

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Ninety hours of footage out of the 44,000 total were released in the first “wave” of tapes on Nov. 17 by the Committee on House Administration.

“There’s a lot of videos that we can get out there pretty quickly, and that’s what we’re going to start with, rolling out more and more of those videos,” Loudermilk said. “Our goal is as soon as possible to get all 44,000 hours of that to the American people to view.”