A group of news organizations filed a lawsuit Wednesday demanding access to surveillance footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach that was released to Tucker Carlson earlier this year.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) handed over more than 40,000 hours of surveillance footage to the Fox News host, who aired clips from the surveillance. The new video footage, Carlson said, raises significant questions about the official narrative around the Capitol breach.
The Associated Press, the New York Times, Advance Publications, CBS, Gannett, ProPublica, CNN, Scripps, and Politico signed onto the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, asking (pdf) the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys’ administrative office to hand over the footage via an expedited Freedom of Information Act request….