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[–] [email protected] 180 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm not a lawyer, so I'm probably wrong, but wouldn't that be obstructing justice, or something?

[–] [email protected] 203 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It is the exact textbook definition of obstruction of justice. It doesn't get any more obstruction of justice than to literally hide identities with the express stated goal of obstructing the work of the Department of Justice.

He's taking a page out of Trump’s "it's not a crime if you brag about it on tv" playbook.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey everybody, we doin' crimes and shit. Whatchu gonna do about it

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have the perfect username to make that comment 😆👌

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He killed me with a sword, how weird is that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Signal still going though, though, so you were vindicated on THAT 🤷

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Fortunately for the FBI, and for anyone who still believes in democracy, most of these idiots brought their smartphones with them so video hasn't even been necessary to secure convictions. And lots of them recorded video themselves, OF themselves, in order to brag about their crimes online.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Of course, why take precautions? They didn't expect to lose. They expected King Trump to be crowned and bring his chosen people to paradise, and they wanted to make sure they weren't left out.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah, although something tells me that a lot of them aren't exactly the type who think very far ahead regardless of what they expected the outcome of that day to be.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They then uploaded the videos to parlor which had no security on their API, so anyone with the address could download every video.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

That's hilarious, I forgot about that part. Parlor probably didn't bother to strip out the metadata either, did they? So, full GPS coordinates with every image and video... hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Worse, DOJ certainly had them before Congress so it makes no sense.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This is the dumbest part about this whole thing. It's just grandstanding.

Edit: He's already recanted it. Instead saying they are blurring to protect their identities from the public.

Meanwhile, any little suspect from small time crime gets their face plastered all over local news anyways.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Its grandstanding and posturing.

But there is actually a good argument. Someone who the DOJ have decided wasn't worth the hassle to properly investigate might still be identified and reported by a co-worker or neighbor. Which then begins to force the DOJ's hand (they are still cops so they might ignore it but...). I personally think everyone who crowded outside the building deserves to be locked up, but I can see an argument that only people who entered the building or who actively caused damage should be charged.

Because yes, facial recognition and DMV databases are already a thing. But, much like with a red light ticket, a decent lawyer can work wonders to argue out "a robot claims that I commit a crime". Whereas having a human in the loop removes that gotcha. Hell, if my cousin is any indication, you don't even need a lawyer to argue against a red light camera or an automated speed trap and just need to care enough to show up to the courthouse for a few hours.

Also, regardless, this is indeed (attempted) obstruction of justice to protect insurrectionists.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Or people think they recognize faces in the crowd, and we get a whole slew of Richard Jewells and Sunil Tripathis

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

any little suspect from small time crime gets their face plastered all over local news

Only if they're black or hispanic. There's a narrative to push, don't you know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It’s theater for their deep state struggle fundraising. Gotta shake down the marks for the cash. You think he’s got a sugar daddy? He’s not a Supreme Court justice………

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He said this at a press conference, was there no push back from any journalist, or was that edited out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's the murmur sound you hear at the very end of the clip as he's about to finish talking: a slew of reporters either pointing out that he just casually admitted to a serious criminal conspiracy or lauding him for protecting the conspirators, defending on the specific media outlets they're from.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago

Ladies and gentlemen:

The Party of Law and Order

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

“Protect them from DOJ”

PaRtY oF LaW anD OrDEr, everyone!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fuck this asshole. Post their faces on every billboard in Times Square. Dox them all. Anyone associated with Jan 6 should all be shot out of a cannon into the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, whichever is cheaper. Imagine what would have been going on in this country had they succeeded. That’s what the punishment should be based on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You give them the glory of such a cool death? Give them a humiliating death, living with a felony criminal record and unable to vote.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Unable to vote and unable to buy guns. 😅

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I though it was all leftists, antifa, and FBI plants? Why would Johnson want to hide their faces? Unless the GOP has been lying about that. But they wouldn't do that, would they?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

"We blurred their faces so you can't prove it's not!"

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (7 children)

It's interesting that they would choose to blur them if it's that sensitive considering blurring things isn't actually destructive and if you were to figure out the settings they used to blur then you can easily apply the opposite effect to unblur the image. To be truly destructive they should use black boxes over faces.

And regardless of the method they use it really shouldn't take long to do either.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

Criminals? Yes. Criminal masterminds? Less so.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It's just an idiotic statement from him, considering the DOJ already had the raw footage since day 1.

...because they're the DOJ.

Also, he's already retracted his statement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Makes sense. What a ridiculous statement to have made to begin with though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but the Insurrection Hunters didn't have access to these videos & now, thanks to #christofascist Mike Johnson, they still won't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

That depends on the algorythm and intensity of the blur. Blur is destructive. If you blur good it can't be undone. If you don't blur enough it can be undone to a certain degree, but not completely. I remember one criminal used a whirl instead of a blur and that thing had been undone almost completely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

That’s because these idiots struggle with email. They can’t conceive of what you just said

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Can you please show an example of this unblurring happening in reality? In my understanding of video editing tools, once the file is exported with blurred details, there is not enough information present in the file to reconstruct the details of the unblurred source without access to the original unexported project files.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Somehow, I have a feeling this effort will actually help the DOJ identify who these people are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

There is a long history of governments not knowing how to properly redact information. There are STILL redacted documents where you can just copy the text out in a pdf reader coming out as recently as (intentionally vague: Within the last year).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fucking obstruction of justice for assholes committing treason....he should get the Santos treatment.. Straight to jail.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why is Johnson protecting antifa?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Why can't antifa stop posing as right-wing nutjobs? There is a consistent habit of antifa posing as established right-wing nutjobs that have a flawless consistent history, as if they have been undercover for a literal lifetime. It is time that they stopped being right-wing nutjobs masquerading as antifa and be treated as who they are, lizard people posing as antifa posing as right-wing nutjobs with a venn diagram that overlaps with pedophiles, like a ring of fire eclipse's totality, persecuting people who live their lives differently than their narrow wold view allows.

Read your Bible sheeple, its all in there.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Where is this video coming from that the DOJ doesn't already have it?

Edit: from another article "We don’t want them to be retaliated against and to be charged by the DOJ,” the House speaker said. His office later noted that DOJ already has the raw footage.

Exactly as u/[email protected] said below.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I imagine that the DOJ absolutely has it.

But telling the cult of Trump that "good ol' Mike" is blurring their faces to "protect them from the DOJ" is an effort to endear himself to the rabid cult mob that doesn't know any better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That was my thought as well, especially coming from the party of drama queens.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe from those of the traitors who were such geniuses that they recorded their own crimes and then didn't permawipe the data from their devices? AKA the constituents of Jericho Johnson.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I watched livestreams of it as it was happening, they were never thinking it through

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

So did I and you're (somehow) 400% correct in that assessment.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Johnson will always put the interests of the Christian right before those of democracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

just need some time to cheat and lie

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