Matt Gaetz praises Speaker Mike Johnson for releasing 44,000 hours of Capitol riot footage
- as Mike Lee demands probe of Dem-led Jan. 6 committee for 'hiding' the video
▶ Johnson on Friday began releasing 44,000 hours of Capitol riot footage
▶ Matt Gaetz, MTG, and other right-wing GOP members praised the move
▶ Rep. Mike Lee accused Jan. 6 committee of 'deliberately' hiding the footage
Republicans are expressing their delight after House Speaker Mike Johnson began releasing thousands of hours of surveillance footage from the US Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
The first tranche of around 90 hours of footage was released on a public committee website Friday, with the rest of the 44,000 hours expected to be posted over the next several months.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, who led the ouster of Johnson's predecessor Kevin McCarthy, praised the new speaker for keeping his promise to the caucus to release the footage.
'HE WON'T LIE,' Gaetz wrote in a post on X. 'If he says he is going to do something, he is going to do it.'
Other congressional Republicans, including Rep. Troy Nehls and Senator Mike Lee, called for fresh investigations, and accused the former Democrat-led House January 6 Committee of hiding some of the footage.
The video gives a bird's eye view of the Capitol complex as hundreds of then-President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the building in a bid to prevent the certification of Joe Biden's election.. …
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12765607/New-Capitol-riot-footage-Matt-Gaetz.html
The upload time of all 44000 hours will take a while.
This shouldn't be true. One of (not sure if it has been beaten) the fastest connections in the world was measured at 319 Tbps over an 1800 mile distance by Japanese researchers using a four core fiber cable.
I would hope that our government would have fast enough speeds to not take months for massive amounts of data locally with, I would hope, simultaneous workloads.
10 Gbps, which a domestic local network can perform using a Cat6a cable (or fiber), would upload an average hour of 1080p video (1.4GB) in just about a second.
Considering an NVMe can generally handle a write speed much greater than that, it should take half a day at max speed.
"Months" truly is a long time for the United States government.
It's only about 62 terabytes of data on average.
Even if you went down to a measly 1Gbps connection, that's roughly between 100-125 MB/s. It would now take around 10-13 seconds per hour of full resolution 1080p video on average, or about 7 days on a single workload.
Considering this is well within the range of domestic local networks, and within the range of many Internet connections in suburbs, the government absolutely should be more prepared to do this in a matter of weeks rather than "months". And that is me being generous.
Bravo ! Cheers !