Trump DOJ opposes letting Jan. 6 defendant 'examine and publish' footage, evidence and discovery surrounding Capitol

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Source: Law & Crime

Apr 16th, 2025, 7:43 pm


A Jan. 6 defendant from Texas who ran for Congress last year and is reportedly attempting another political run has been granted permission to “examine and publish” footage, evidence and discovery from his criminal case surrounding the events of the 2021 Capitol attack — but the Justice Department says not so fast.

Ryan Zink, 35, of Lubbock, was granted access last week by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on account of the DOJ not filing a memorandum in opposition to Zink’s March 22 motion to lift a protective order keeping his case material sealed. Boasberg issued a minute order on April 9 announcing his decision, which the DOJ apparently saw and responded to Wednesday with the document in question.

“As the Government has not opposed Defendant’s Motion to Lift Protective Order, the Court orders that the Motion is granted, and the Protective Order is lifted,” a docket entry from Boasberg said last week. In response, the DOJ’s top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, signed off on a memorandum in opposition Wednesday that said granting such a request to Zink would put people at risk and pose a threat to national security.

“Lifting a protective order in this case creates a dangerous opportunity and could potentially place sensitive information in the possession of those who would use it to harm the national security, in addition to allowing terabytes of information including individual defendants’, witnesses’, and victims’ personal identifying information to be released to the public,” Martin said. “The government has thus demonstrated that release of these materials could cause a significant hazard to others, and there is no prejudice to the defendant from continuing the protective order here.”

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Full headline: ‘Creates a dangerous opportunity’: Trump DOJ opposes letting Jan. 6 defendant ‘examine and publish’ footage, evidence and discovery surrounding Capitol attack

They are continually trying to ERASE the history of January 6th and don't want "reminders" to appear.

[republianmushroom]

1. The trump "INSURRECTION", nothing else will do.

[Figarosmom]

2. At least now it appears

They have figured out that the footage is actually damning. All that time that the republican Congress was fighting to gave it released thinking trump was right and it would show " a day of love and peace" .

[kimbutgar]

3. It's available on YouTube and the media companies also have footage.

And it will hard to deny what we saw on TV that day and say it was a peaceful demonstration. And I actually have a recorded show showing those insurrectionists on my DVR!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. From what I understand from previous stories that were related to cases like this

is that there is apparently "internal" Capitol footage that hasn't been released or at least "shown" publicly. The J6 Committee might have some of it but has generally only released what was relevant to "telling the story" of what happened, since there were so many cameras and so much footage.