House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans for Congress to establish an outside and independent commission to investigate “the facts and causes” related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
In a letter sent to her Democratic colleagues on Monday, the California Democrat said the commission will be modeled on the commission established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Pelosi noted the recent work of retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who has “been assessing our security needs by reviewing what happened on January 6 and how we must ensure that it does not happen again.”
“As we prepare for the Commission, it is also clear from General Honoré’s interim reporting that we must put forth a supplemental appropriation to provide for the safety of Members and the security of the Capitol,” Pelosi wrote.
Pelosi had first suggested the creation of such a commission two weeks ago.
Such a move will require legislation and will likely tee up partisan difficulties.
Her letter to colleagues came several hours after four House Republicans sent a letter to Pelosi suggesting she may be responsible for the delay in the deployment of National Guard troops ahead of and during the insurrection. The letter did not mention Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who on Jan. 6 was still the Senate majority leader and would have also had a say in the Capitol’s security posture.
“Five weeks have passed since the January 6th attack on the Capitol building, and many important questions about your responsibility for the security of the Capitol remain unanswered,” their letter reads.
Drew Hammill, Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, called the Republicans’ letter a “transparently partisan attempt to lay blame on the Speaker.”
“The Speaker has and will continue to take action to ensure accountability and enhance the security of the Capitol,” he said in a statement. “Following the insurrection, the House Sergeant at Arms, the Senate Sergeant at Arms and the Chief of the Capitol Police were removed from their positions. It is the job of the Capitol Police Board, on which these three individuals sat, to properly plan and prepare for security threats facing the U.S. Capitol.”
Sen. Chris Coons, a close ally of President Biden, told ABC’s This Week he supports a Sept. 11-style commission to probe further into the events leading up to the attack.
“There’s still more evidence that the American people need and deserve to hear,” the Delaware Democrat said. “The 9/11 Commission is a way to make sure that we secure the Capitol going forward, and that we lay bare the record of just how responsible and how abjectly and violating of his constitutional oath President Trump really was.”
Following the attack on the Capitol, heightened security measures were deployed around the complex, including the requirement of members to walk through metal detectors and various forms of fencing secured around the Capitol’s perimeter.
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Keep it going nut case nan. Your persecution of Trump only makes him stronger. You have forgotten the liberal point that there is no such thing as “bad” publicity.
Her idea of “Independent” is ONLY RABID libtards will be on it…
True, the more she pursues him the greater his standing! Even with the Left, there are many Democrats here in California that despise Pelosi, she is viewed by them as an interloper, coming from the east coast to pollute San Francisco and California with the same corruption her father and brother bestowed upon Baltimore and she has succeeded well.
Fact is, the more she spews her hate for Trump, the more those who don’t care for Trump but never liked Pelosi are all taking another look at Trump and wondering where all the vitriol is coming from and realizing that Trump actually did very well for this nation and the hate was unfounded!
Keep up the good work Nazi Pelosi, you do more to help the Republican Party than Mitt or Mitch ever did!
THEN why don’t those dems, VOTE HER OUT OF OFFICE, rather than keep her in?
Nancy Pelosi, encouraging blm and antifa to burn down cities and to take down statues. Pelosi, who has a fence / wall around the Capitol, but walls do not work on the Southern Border, do they Nancy? Oh, the metastatic cancer in Washington!!!!!!! The smell of toxic waste in Washington DC. The Green New Deal, did not clean up the toxic waste in Washington DC, did it Nancy, John Kerry and Joe Criminal?
IF they didn’t have that fence around the capital, and Thousands of armed guardsmen there, THEY WOULDN”T STILL be in power…
“….a Sept. 11-style commission to probe further into the events leading up to the attack.”
They might have taken a look into that BEFORE they decided to attempt an impeachment….again.
Not much of an attack. The business of the day was completed after the noise subsided. Pearl Harbor was an attack. The World Trade Center was an attack. Benghazi was an attack. The IRS vs. We The People was an attack. Heck, Barry Seotoreo was an attack.
The American people would have moved on already if the media were not employed to beat this drum to pieces.
Do Americans really feel empathy for one of the most despised group of people on the planet? I don’t want anyone to get hurt but I was rather enjoying watching the rats scurrying for their hidey-holes.
Save the money … “mother dog”…. I can tell you exactly why there was an attack and so much divide …. it’s elitist MORONS like you jamming useless, freedom canceling, middle class killing liberalism coupled with lying, deceptive, above the law with …NO… accountability or ramification from …EVERYONE…in the cesspool/swamp washington up the American citizens keester. WE’VE HAD ENOUGH!!! If you keep it up the next one will be thousand times worse. So stop the insanity and do your job already.
I’ve had enough with DC, period. Other the museums and memorials, there’s practically NOTHING i’d like to keep…
Another one of her henchmen leading the charge. Maybe it is time for an independent investigation to determine why national guard troops and DC police were not requested. Who actually made that decision.
HER of course.. That’s why there will NEVER be any investigation into WHY THERE Wasn’t enough security on hand PRIOR…
Pelosi is one sick puppy. The hatred in her is strong. TDS has messed with her brain.
WHAT brain? IMO it rotted into nothing long ago.
Ms. Pelosi, Tear Down That Fence! Apologies to RR.
Any “investigation” overseen by Nancy (like the two impeachments) is a sham and a shame and a cover up, not a search for the truth.
All of this is a product of the raging psychosis planted in what little remains of the minds of the ruling class.
The inmates have captured control of the asylum and have installed their own queen as warden.