Jesus dork Speaker of the House Mike Johnson’s team have as of Wednesday published on Rumble just 162 hours, or 0.4 percent, of the estimated relevant 44,000 hours of security footage from the Capitol captured by surveillance cameras on January 6th, 2021, CBS News reports. More than half of that, 90 hours or so, were already released to former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson by Johnson’s failed predecessor Kevin McCarthy. For some reason that particular batch of footage does not have the faces of the rioters blurred out as Johnson had claimed was so important to keep them from getting prosecuted, even though his office later tried to walk it back by saying that “faces are to be blurred from public viewing room footage to prevent all forms of retaliation against private citizens from any non-governmental actors,” and admitting that was stupid because “The Department of Justice already has access to raw footage from January 6, 2021.”

In an interview publisher last week, NBC News’s Ryan Reilly, author of Sedition Hunters, gave lefty Substacker Brian Beutler a good explainer of why the blurring was even more pointless. “Honestly, from the sleuths’ perspective, it is not an insurmountable challenge… The Capitol cameras aren’t the highest of quality, and the footage that has been the most effective in terms of identifying suspects through facial recognition is the rioters’ own footage, professionally shot video, and body-worn camera footage. The Capitol CCTV footage is certainly useful for placing events on a timeline and for figuring out which bodies/suspects entered the building, but if Speaker Johnson thinks he’s preventing many people from being IDed by blurring footage, he’s kidding himself.”

The MAGA assholes were, as we had anticipated, far more triggered by the blurring. “Don’t be fooled! Speaker Johnson’s proposal to blur faces helps the DOJ, FBI informants, and rogue Capitol Hill police hide their identities more than it will help defense lawyers and innocent men and women unjust jailed for their participation in a political political protest,” tweeted influencer Carol Swain.