McCarthy Right on Releasing Jan. 6 Tapes

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Sunday on Newsmax that he backs House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s comments this past week about making previously unreleased security footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests public, as there were many details that the American public never learned from the select committee tasked with investigating the incidents of that day.

“Eventually, it’s going to get out, and I think there’s no better time than the present,” Whitaker said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “A lot was not learned through the committee. There was no review of the security posture and the decisions that were made leading up to that day.”

Political violence is never acceptable, Whitaker added, “but I think it is important to produce and distribute everything that is out there. That was the purpose of the Jan. 6 committee, and I think they’ve completely failed in that regard.”… (Excerpt from Newsmax)