House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced that the U.S. House of Representatives would investigate the Capitol Insurrection with a "9-11-style commission."
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said politicians will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump.
Ms Pelosi said in a letter to politicians on Monday (local time) that the commission would be modelled on a similar one convened after the 11 September, 2001 attack on New York and the Pentagon.
Ms Pelosi said the panel will also look at the “facts and causes relating to the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other federal, state, and local law enforcement .
By Susan Jones | February 16, 2021 | 7:29am EST
Members of the National Guard are seen at a Capitol security checkpoint on February 1, 2021. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Security, security, security, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) wrote to her Democrat colleagues on Monday, as she announced that an outside, 9/11-style commission will be established to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Press reports say Pelosi also plans to keep thousands of National Guard troops at the Capitol beyond mid-March possibly into the fall.
Republicans want to know why: I m calling it Fort Pelosi at this point, Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), a Green Beret, told Fox Business Network Tuesday morning.