Politico’s Cheney: Releasing Jan. 6 Footage Would Enable Foreign Intelligence Services ‘to Glean Information About Vulnerabilities in the Capitol’

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CHENEY: "I mean, look, a lot of the footage has come out in ongoing court cases. Again, they've had access to it and many clips have come out in trials and other court proceedings related to January 6th defendants. What the Capitol Police is most concerned about is a wide release of massive amounts of footage because that would enable bad actors, including, for example, foreign intelligence services, to glean information about vulnerabilities in the Capitol. And so that, I think, is why the Department has been opposed to these sort of wide releases. Now, McCarthy hasn’t said he’s going to release all of this widely to everyone -- and if he ever does, it would probably be with restrictions -- but he does say he wants to release a large amount of it publicly. So the question is, how will they balance that line between security and transparency on that?"