Former J6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson
Claims He Didn’t Have Access to January 6 Footage
Gateway Pundit,
by
Christina Laila
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
3/10/2023 1:40:27 AM
Former January 6 Chairman Bennie Thompson claimed he never had access to January 6 footage after Fox News host Tucker Carlson released never-before-seen footage.
Bennie Thompson told CNN that he is not aware of any January 6 Committee members having access to the J6 footage.
“I’m actually not aware of any member of the committee who had access. We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video,” Bennie Thompson told CNN.
Via CNN: “Bennie Thompson, former chair of the Jan. 6 committee, said lawmakers were never given that type of access to the footage last Congress. “It’s strictly a new policy that the new speaker has put in place,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
judy 3/10/2023 2:13:03 AM (No. 1421582)
Didn’t have access or didn’t request access? Their only interest was Trump!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
natpock1 3/10/2023 2:50:02 AM (No. 1421586)
So never really worried about seeing what actually happened in the capital building, how hypocritical these people are. Bennie and his commune should apologize and resign for putting on such a bad show!
43 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Trigger2 3/10/2023 4:33:38 AM (No. 1421596)
Piglousi & Chuckie probabaly forbade it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jayjeti 3/10/2023 4:34:44 AM (No. 1421597)
so, the weenie says he didn't know anything about the false shenanigans being shoveled by his own committee -- a real winner. Well clown, explain where the videos the public were seeing came from. You hired ABC, go ahead and pass the buck to the producer and his team from ABC who had access to all this footage.
33 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 3/10/2023 4:35:43 AM (No. 1421599)
CYA! They know the indictments are coming.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 3/10/2023 5:17:21 AM (No. 1421607)
Didn't want access is more like it. Can't have the truth ruin a good lie.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 3/10/2023 5:24:06 AM (No. 1421610)
He had access. Come on Bennie we all know you are a liar. Now, is the time for everyone jailed to sue the h3ll out of everyone of these people on the Jan 6 committee, their lousy attorneys, DOJ and the Judges. Innocent people were held on what charges.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
5 handicap 3/10/2023 5:34:29 AM (No. 1421613)
FTA: "Former January 6 Chairman Bennie Thompson claimed he never had access to January 6 footage after Fox News host Tucker Carlson released"
This "Gob of Spit" wouldn't recognize truth if it came up and bit him on his butt. It very probably will in the not too distant future.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mifla 3/10/2023 5:37:24 AM (No. 1421614)
Proving once again that the J6 committee was a trial with no defendant lawyers, just prosecutors.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 3/10/2023 6:14:34 AM (No. 1421629)
Of course, in a kangaroo court you don't need evidence. You can manufacture your own.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 3/10/2023 6:42:30 AM (No. 1421640)
It was his responsibility to see the tapes. Oops, sorry, that is only if this was a fair and unbiased committee who wanted to get to the truth.
23 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
WinterParker 3/10/2023 6:51:45 AM (No. 1421644)
No, Benny. Tucker says that all the video reviewed by the J6 Fraud Committee has a special time stamp on it. You did view it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 3/10/2023 7:13:03 AM (No. 1421652)
Just like a Clinton, it depends upon the meaning of access. "You mean like in my hands?"
12 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Kahunavol 3/10/2023 7:37:29 AM (No. 1421666)
I feel certain they will claim it was too traumatizing to even consider seeing footage.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 3/10/2023 7:41:37 AM (No. 1421671)
As usual, Democrats and their willing allies (RINOS, media), made their accusations, proclamations, and conclusions about J6 without bothering to check the hard evidence. They all say"we were there so we know what happened ". They all ran away and were in secured rooms insulated from the J6 events. All they really know is what the media narrative was and what Pelosi & Schumer want them to think. They act like victims but are really victimizing the entire country with their lies.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mobyclik 3/10/2023 7:45:09 AM (No. 1421673)
''I believe this committee is ready to begin hearings on the guilty parties.''
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Rama41 3/10/2023 7:51:07 AM (No. 1421676)
In June of 2021 The New York Times got the videos iand assembled their own 45 minute narrative on what happened on January 6th. I wish Tucker would dissect it In light of what hes found out.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
czechlist 3/10/2023 8:04:47 AM (No. 1421684)
"We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video,” Bennie Thompson told CNN
They don't write nor read the legislation they pass either. The have Ivy League interns to do all of that grunt work - most wouldn't comprehend it anyway.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
homefry 3/10/2023 8:13:27 AM (No. 1421690)
SOOOOO....You KNEW it existed, but just went on with the persecution without seeing it? There should be a word for such actions from elected officials, treason?
Persecuting American citizens without even bothering to see the evidence knowing FULL WELL it was there???
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/10/2023 8:42:20 AM (No. 1421714)
Ignorance is no excuse!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
udanja99 3/10/2023 8:48:12 AM (No. 1421719)
“ We had a team of employees who kind of went through the video,…”
After we told them to ignore anything which would exonerate Trump or interfere with our narrative.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Marzipan4 3/10/2023 9:00:10 AM (No. 1421728)
Rediclous Mae culpa. The lead on a congressional committee tasked with showing and prosecuting the (drum rol please with crashing cymbals ) insurrection did not access all materials to prove the heinous felons bent on destroying our nation? Horse feathers. Another clear example of our incompetent administration. They should all loose their jobs.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Kate318 3/10/2023 9:22:07 AM (No. 1421747)
Uh oh. Looks like some of “the team” are going to get thrown under the bus.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Birddog 3/10/2023 9:27:16 AM (No. 1421753)
"The GMA TV producer we hired went through it for us... selected and editied the dailies, scripted all of the dialog...we all just performed it"...Where is our Emmy?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Gordon Mills 3/10/2023 11:10:47 AM (No. 1421837)
And he can get by with his ridiculous statement because he is black and can't be called out.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
padiva 3/10/2023 11:31:18 AM (No. 1421859)
Can congress critters be impeached?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 3/10/2023 11:33:32 AM (No. 1421861)
"Chose not to" access is not the same as "didn't have" access. You can drive by a church every day and choose not to enter, but saying that means you didn't have access to it is a lie. So Thompson is outright lying.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/10/2023 11:52:03 AM (No. 1421876)
This is almost unbelievable.
But what is sick is that this is the way they vote on our laws.
They never read them. They have some young jackass staffer read it or perhaps even write them and then they go into the House and Senate and vote the way their staff or Pelosi or Schumer tell them to vote
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 3/10/2023 12:25:20 PM (No. 1421913)
Love the parsing of the words to indicate that Speaker McCarthy has an open policy compared to the closed and controlled policy he had to follow under Nancy Pelosi's rules.
Amazingly, he likely didn't have access, despite being Chair of that group.
Hope the Republicans hold hearings on the J6 committee to get members to admit under oath what they did, how they did it, and what access they actually had.
Did they look into the reasons why DC mayor Bowser stated she did not want any additional law enforcement assistance, as she wrote in her letter?
Ask of the Capitol Police who do they report to, which office in Congress?
In other words, expose them for not looking at what happened that day, but why they only focused on 1 person, in particular?
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
DVC 3/10/2023 12:26:37 PM (No. 1421916)
But, he sure told us all about it.....pure lies, every single time.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
rochow 3/10/2023 1:18:52 PM (No. 1421961)
He was busy stuffing his face. One of the dumbest men I have ever witnessed.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 3/10/2023 1:49:52 PM (No. 1421981)
Being denied access is 180° different than having access but choosing not to avail yourself of that opportunity
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Birddog 3/10/2023 2:56:38 PM (No. 1422021)
IF...they had allowed actual Republican members on that panel, access would have been demanded, and granted...and this all would have come out 2 years ago.
Along with much, much more, because different witnesses would have been called, and further info derived..
5 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
BarryNo 3/10/2023 3:11:30 PM (No. 1422030)
Is he admitting to being a dupe? Is he saying that unelected and unidentified persons controlled his J6 narrative, and he spent millions of dollars and sent hundreds of people to jail, without trial on their say so?
To stupid to live.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
rytwng 3/10/2023 3:49:35 PM (No. 1422045)
Bennie boy is a liar just like the rest of the Socialist Democrats
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
MickTurn 3/10/2023 4:48:04 PM (No. 1422072)
I'm throwing the Major BS LYING RED FLAG on this one.....
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
JimBob 3/11/2023 10:36:06 AM (No. 1422595)
HAW! HAW! HAW!
Ol' Bennie thinks people will actually BELIEVE this whopper?
HAW! HAW! HAW!
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