And this reporting of the new video releases should be combined with the fact that DOJ demanded protective orders over all videos disclosed to the defendants from CCTV or body worn cameras, preventing release of those videos to the public.
The videos could only be released if they were used in court.
So who used them in court? The Govt when it asks for defendants to be detained without bond, or other various types of pretrial proceedings.
So DOJ could pick and choose what it wanted the public to see and what would be reported in the press. That allowed DOJ to set the "narrative" through the media about what happened on Jan 6, while defendants couldn't release any video to establish a counter-narrative.
This is why what Carlson is doing is so important. For the first time the wider public is seeing that the events of Jan 6 were a lot more nuanced that has been suggested by the GOVT -- including the Jan 6 Committee.

The GOVT has misled the public.

THAT should make you unhappy.

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Mar 9
Tucker wanted Watkins on first because Watkins said he never saw the videos. That's an important aspect of Tucker's reporting on the videos, and it is particularly impactful in Chansley case because of his sentence and what the videos show.
I understand that -- Watkins is the only attorney who could say that because John Pierce and I didn't become Jakes attorneys until after he was sentenced. The reason I took the lead is because I've done dozens of federal appeals and post-conviction relief petitions.
There were other legal issues involving Jake unrelated to his conviction and sentence that John took a look at for him.
But with regard to his conviction, sentence, and Watkins' involvement, all those issues were part of my conversations with Jake.
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Mar 9
The line drawn by politicians over Tucker Carlson's playing of previously undisclosed video is very easy to discern.
GOP politicians who do not want Trump 2024 to gain traction are criticizing Carlson because Jan 6 is the "Silver Bullet" keeping Trump from being a candidate.
That's what the narrative has always been about with the Dems in Congress and the Biden Admin., with the press dutifully doing their bidding.
Any information that undercuts the narrative, or just makes it less impactful, makes the weight of J6 around Trump's next lighter.
The Chansley videos Tucker has emphasized don't change the videos of violence outside the Capitol or in the tunnel.
What they do is pull back a couple layers of the onion built by the Anti-Trump forces in Govt and the press to show not everything they've represented is accurate.
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Mar 9
Albert Watkins and Legel Fees Math:

Jake Chansley was detained in Admin. Segregation at the Fed. Det. Center in Alexandria, VA. He was alone in his cell 22 hours a day. He spoke to his mother on the family line -- recorded by facility -- and to Watkins on the attorney line.
He had no other significant sources of info about the outside world -- unlike J6 Defendants at DOC who were housed together and shared info they received from friends and family they could communicate with.
In August 2021 while convincing Chansley to accept the Gov't plea offer, Watkins told Chansley his legal fees were already over $1 million.
Watkins was hired in Feb., and by Aug. he said his legal fees were $1 million. The rate was $800 per hour.
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Mar 7
Generally not true. DOJ has made a large quantity of video available for defense counsel to access, and has generally given videos specific to individual defendants to their attorneys that focused on the charged conduct.
For example, my client David Mehaffie was indicted for his conduct from the period 2:30 to 3:30 in and around the Lower West Terrance tunnel. I was given access to video that showed his location and conduct during that entire period. I had multiple videos from multiple sources.
Did I have every video? I can't say for sure, but there was no reason for me to suspect that some video I didn't have showed events involving David in some manner different from the video I did have. I had multiple CCTV and body worn camera videos.
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Mar 7
Re the Capitol Hill videos released by Speaker McCarthy.

For over a year DOJ has been pushing out to defense attorneys new productions of "Global Discovery" - discovery DOJ claims doesn't relate to a specific defendant, but relates to the events of Jan 6 on a "macro level."
In addition to the "Global Discovery", defense attorneys receive "case specific discovery" less often -- discovery that relates to individual defendants. This is often interview memos or crowd-videos from which particular defendants have been ID'd as part of the investigation.
If --as suspected-- the entirety of the video library given to Tucker Carlson by Speaker McCarthy includes video that was not given to DOJ by Speaker Pelosi, i.e., it was withheld from DOJ by the Democrats when they controlled Congress, then we should begin to see new discovery.
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Mar 7
Re Tucker and videos.

One very important clarification.

Yes, DOJ made a database of videos available to defense attorneys in filed cases.

BUT ...
DOJ could only put into the database what Congress gave DOJ.

If Congress/Pelosi held back video then DOJ would not have it to put in the database.

All videos from body worn cameras of USCP and CCTV are the property of Congress, not DOJ.
That is a separation of powers issue.

Whether DOJ was obligated by Brady to get videos from Congress was litigated, and Judges held that DOJ didn't have any way to force Congress to produce videos it didn't want to produce, even if they were Brady material.
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