February 16, 2021
The commission will investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
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It s been more than a month since the riot at the Capitol, but the search to get to the bottom of it is just beginning.
An independent commission will be investigating.
In a statement, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said the 9/11-like commission will investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6 attack on the Capitol.
Pelosi already tapped retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré to review the security measures on Capitol Hill and propose changes.
Donald Trump’s acquittal in a Senate impeachment trial on a charge of “incitement of insurrection” for his role in the United States Capitol violence does not spell an end to possible accountability – or legal troubles – for the former president.
Trump’s actions and words leading up to the deadly January 6 violence, in which rioters stormed the seat of the US legislature as Congress met to certify the election victory of President Joe Biden, garnered more bipartisan support for conviction than any previous Senate impeachment trial.
Legislators from both parties have since increasingly called for Congress to set up an independent commission, like that created after the 9/11 attacks.