Ex-national senior security officials call for Capitol attack commission By (0) Former senior national security officials said the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol building expose severe vulnerabilities in the nation's preparedness for preventing domestic terrorist attacks. Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI | License Photo April 6 (UPI) -- A bipartisan group of dozens of former senior national security, military and elected officials urged Congress on Tuesday to launch a 9/11-type commission into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that they see as part of "an exigent and growing" domestic terrorism threat. The 140 officials including three former Pentagon chiefs Chuck Hagel, William Perry and William Cohen requested the launch of the independent bipartisan commission in a letter sent to members of Congress three months to the day when supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., in a failed effort to prevent the election win of then-Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.