# DOJ/Jack Smith Investigation into Trump and Election Interference, January 6th Insurrection (Re-Indicted August 27, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 23, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455 "2022-11-23T20:14:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 94
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1864 "2023-12-05T21:47:45Z")
No one blurred these videos before releasing them to Tucker Fucking Carlson. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1865 "2023-12-05T22:07:25Z")
Yeah but they’re pretty safe from him. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1866 "2023-12-05T22:12:59Z")
Shit, we will never find who this asshole is now… thanks, Mike Johnson! [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53378592255_3b882db13b_b.jpg "223a2f8c-1cf6-427e-b767-bf3fe6e861e4-originalBlur\_TrumpTravelBan\_Mann") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/53378592255/) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1867 "2023-12-05T22:14:20Z")
What I intended was, if they can be released as is, then they can be released as is. FOIA requests should flood in. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1868 "2023-12-05T23:10:33Z")
The government has all those videos too, so maybe they should appoint someone to post the unblurred image next to the blurred one until the republicans get bored and move on to the next stupid thing they’re going to try. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1869 "2023-12-06T00:39:25Z")
Those people should have just worn nylon stockings over their faces like proper criminals. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1870 "2023-12-06T00:55:13Z")
Sedition is okay, but the GOP would have condemned sedition in a stocking as a drag performance corrupting any children who might be watching. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1871 "2023-12-06T03:16:54Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Those people should have just worn nylon stockings over their faces like proper criminals. But they couldn’t breathe with masks on! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1872 "2023-12-06T03:17:24Z")
Excellent! ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1873 "2023-12-06T13:42:33Z")
[Son, you got a panty on your head.](https://youtu.be/CYXEF-XyqQw?si=j9yEGSPy3G0pkpg0) ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1874 "2023-12-06T13:46:33Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Those people should have just worn nylon stockings over their faces like proper criminals. Yes, but why pay for stockings when your government will blur your face for free. Have you seen the price of stockings lately? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1875 "2023-12-06T15:10:10Z")
Don’t forget that most of these nuts thought they were being heroic and were saving the country. You’d _want_ people to know who you are. It’s only now that people are going to jail that many might prefer that you don’t recognize them. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1876 "2023-12-06T16:02:10Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > > [@Odesio](#): > > > > Doesn’t the DOJ already have access to those videos in their raw unfiltered form? > > They do, but one of the most successful ways that the insurrectionists are being identified is through a casual group of internet folks called the Sedition Hunters. By depriving the Sedition Hunters of access to these previously unseen tapes, the GOP is actively interfering with the identification process. > > Ninja’d by @Pleonast. 🙂 I assume what Johnson wants to blur is the thousands of hours of security footage from the Capitol from Jan 6. The Sedition Hunters are primarily using social media that these idiots posted of themselves (and others), right? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1877 "2023-12-06T16:30:27Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > The Sedition Hunters are primarily using social media that these idiots posted of themselves (and others), right? The fact that large numbers of seditionists have been identified by public viewing of available recordings indicates that more seditionists would inevitably be identified by public viewing of additional recordings when they become available… unless someone (e.g. Trump’s Little Johnson, aka Mushroom Mike if you’re on a first-name basis) were to blur the faces on the video, thereby hindering the apprehension of the concealed perpetrators. The process of hindering the apprehension of criminals is technically known as becoming an accessory after the fact. > **18 USC 3: Accessory after the fact** > Whoever, knowing that an offense against the United States has been committed, receives, relieves, comforts or assists the offender in order to hinder or prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1878 "2023-12-06T19:54:30Z")
As I have said before, Republicans have perfected the fine art of talking out of both sides of their ass, occasionally in the same sentence. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1879 "2023-12-06T21:01:44Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I assume what Johnson wants to blur is the thousands of hours of security footage from the Capitol from Jan 6. The Sedition Hunters are primarily using social media that these idiots posted of themselves (and others), right? I think you’re right. At least some of this is previously unreleased footage. DOJ has it, but they’re not releasing it (and I think there are good reasons for that). Once the footage is in the public domain, Sedition Hunters can review it for new faces and then match it up with what is already in the social media stew to identify insurrectionists. But not if the faces of the insurrectionists are blurred, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1880 "2023-12-06T22:03:39Z")
Too bad the seditionists couldn’t have just been fitted with [frogheads.](https://youtu.be/5-tTD8TTJrI?t=1492) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1881 "2023-12-07T02:36:34Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Don’t forget that most of these nuts thought they were being heroic and were saving the country. You’d _want_ people to know who you are. Yes, they imagined themselves receiving the Blood Order, “And after all, you won”. [Blood Order - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Order) ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1882 "2023-12-08T17:10:21Z")
[Here’s a good long sentence for a bad bad rioter](https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/politics/former-police-chief-sentenced-to-11-years-for-involvement-in-january-6-capitol-attack)! Eleven years for someone who damn well should have known better. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455/1883 "2023-12-08T18:53:42Z")
In Doper-speak, I think that should be a “bad, bad, bad rioter.” 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455.md?page=93) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doj-jack-smith-investigation-into-trump-and-election-interference-january-6th-insurrection-re-indicted-august-27-2024/975455.md?page=95)