GOP Senator Calls for Investigation into Jan 6 Committee after Tapes Made Public: ‘Deliberately Hid from Us’

Republican Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) has joined the mounting collective outrage against the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee after the tapes from the U.S. Capitol were just released to the public.

Sen. Lee has accused the lawmakers on the committee of “deliberately” hiding information from the American people.

Lee is now calling for a full investigation into the former and current lawmakers who served on the House committee.

The senator’s comments came after House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) began releasing more than 40,000 hours of footage taken at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The unedited video shows what actually happened when protesters angry about the 2020 election results entered the halls of Congress.

The Friday release of the footage has triggered a major backlash as the videos show a very different narrative to the anti-Trump claims being peddled by the Democrats.

Highlighting the release of the footage in a series of posts to Twitter/X, Lee called into question the character of former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

“Why didn’t Liz Cheney and Adam Kizinger ever refer to any of these tapes?” Lee asked.

“Maybe they never looked for them.

“Maybe they never even questioned their own narrative.

“Maybe they were just too busy selectively leaking the text messages of Republicans they wanted to defeat.”

Lee’s post to the platform included a video that purportedly showed Capitol police officers facilitating the passage of protesters through the building that day.

Cheney and Kinzinger, Lee wrote in another post to X, were “people who helped hide the J6 tapes.”

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He said they “are cut out of the same cloth as those who will tell you that FISA 702 must be reauthorized without reforms—’because search warrants require too much effort.'”

“We need to investigate the J6 committee,” he wrote in another post.

Lee also took aim at the committee overall, as well as then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Pelosi appointed the select committee to “investigate” what took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“Given the evidence they apparently suppressed, how much footage (and how many other records) do you think Nancy Pelosi and the J6 committee deliberately lost or destroyed?” Lee questioned in one post.

In response to a Friday post by Cheney, which included “some January 6th video” of disgruntled protesters tangling with Capitol police, Lee wrote:

“Liz, we’ve seen footage like that a million times.

“You made sure we saw that — and nothing else. It’s the other stuff — what you deliberately hid from us — that we find so upsetting. Nice try.”

“P.S. How many of these guys are feds? (As if you’d ever tell us),” Lee added in his response to the former lawmaker.

In another post, Lee wrote, “Taxpayer dollars funded the sham J6 committee.”

The GOP senator also amplified a clip released Friday that shows an officer working inside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The officer is seen uncuffing and releasing a protester.

The protester could be seen in the clip giving a fist bump to what appeared to be another officer who was nearby at the time of his release.

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“I walk through these doors every day — several times a day,” Lee wrote in response.

“I’ve never seen this happen.”

In releasing the remaining footage from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Speaker Johnson said in a statement:

“When I ran for Speaker, I promised to make accessible to the American people the 44,000 hours of video from Capitol Hill security taken on January 6, 2021.

“Truth and transparency are critical.”

Some video was made available to the public on Friday, with the bulk of it to be released gradually over time, Johnson said.

Johnson said his decision to release the remaining footage “will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials.”

Johnson said that roughly 5% of the footage would likely be held back due to “sensitive security information related to the building architecture.”

He noted that some faces would be blurred “to avoid any persons from being targeted for retaliation of any kind.”

It is being made public through the House Administration Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight.

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