OPINION:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Sen. Mitt Romney and a handful of other so-called GOP congressional leaders are simply outraged (“Capitol video footage puts House Jan. 6 committee in a new light, some Senate Republicans balk,” web, March 7).
Why? Because Fox News and Tucker Carlson made public real-time, unedited video of what actually happened on Jan. 6, 2021.
Our wonderful congressional representatives are apparently not outraged at what the video revealed: clear evidence that the Jan. 6Â committee lied, cheated and illegally withheld critical evidence from American citizens imprisoned and charged with crimes. Nor are they outraged that this committee edited the video it made public, incorrectly portraying Sen. Josh Hawley as a coward and adding audio of crowd noise clearly not from Jan. 6.
They appear undisturbed, too, by the fact that the committee, our current attorney general, and yes, our president still utter the blatant lie that five officers were killed that day. None of that outrages Mr. McConnell et al. Well, it outrages me, and I am pretty sure I am not the only one.
When the president of another country, after seeing the newly released video, says America is a nation that imprisons innocent people while it leaves its criminals on the street, perhaps we should take note. Nobody in positions of influence — not politicians, the mainstream media, the Justice Department or the judiciary — seems to care about this.
What have we become?
BOB SEGAL
Burke, Virginia
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