{"id":1593503,"date":"2022-08-07T18:49:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593503"},"modified":"2022-08-07T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T22:49:54","slug":"exclusive-rep-gohmert-cites-us-code-that-may-force-capitol-police-to-release-remaining-jan-6-surveillance-footage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-gohmert-cites-us-code-that-may-force-capitol-police-to-release-remaining-jan-6-surveillance-footage-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Gohmert Cites US Code that May Force Capitol Police to Release Remaining Jan. 6 Surveillance Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-gohmert-cites-us-code-that-may-force-capitol-police-to-release-remaining-jan-6-surveillance-footage-2%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1593503&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol continues its effort to prove allegations of insurrection against former President Donald Trump and his supporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-capitol-police\">Capitol Police<\/a> and House Democrats continue to block all efforts to force the release of all surveillance video footage and emails, which could possibly exonerate those being accused of wrongdoing. Now, Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-Texas) is citing a United States Code that could legally force the release of that evidence.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22125824-letter-to-capitol-police-board\">July, 29, 2022 letter<\/a> to Capitol Police Board Chair William J. Walker, obtained by The Epoch Times, Gohmert\u2014backed by the signatures of 23 additional GOP lawmakers\u2014demanded the release of footage captured on Capitol Hill security cameras on Jan. 6, 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/jan-6-u-s-capitol-video-footage-can-and-should-be-released-judicial-watch-says-in-legal-filing_4262382.html\">currently being withheld<\/a> under \u201csovereign immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/02\/06\/Louie-Gohmert-1200x675.jpg\"><\/a> Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) questions Attorney General William Barr who appears before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington\u00a0on July 28, 2020. (Matt McClain-Pool\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you must be aware,\u201d Gohmert wrote, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/uscode.house.gov\/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title2-section1979&#038;num=0&#038;edition=prelim\">2 U.S.C. \u00a7 1979<\/a>\u00a0states that \u2018any Member \u2026 of either House of Congress\u2019 can \u2018obtain information from the Capitol Police regarding the operations and activities of the Capitol Police that affect the Senate and House of Representatives.\u2019 Subsection (c) makes clear that nothing in that law may be construed to prevent us, as Members of the House of Representatives from our ability to obtain those videos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gohmert concluded that \u201cReleasing this information is absolutely essential to proper governance and truth to protect and perpetuate this self, governing nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u2018It\u2019s About Revenge\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/attorneys-claim-government-manufacturing-evidence-to-charge-incarcerate-jan-6-prisoners_4532154.html\">The Epoch Times reported July 5<\/a>, attorneys of Jan. 6 prisoners and defendants have provided evidence in several cases that indicate the government is manufacturing evidence to arrest and incarcerate people who attended the protest at the Capitol. In the meantime, Gohmert insists the government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol continues its effort to prove allegations of insurrection against former President Donald Trump and his supporters, Capitol Police and House Democrats continue to block all efforts to force the release of all surveillance video footage and emails, which could possibly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1593503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}