Published February 15. 2021 5:17PM | Updated February 15. 2021 5:27PM By In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol Building in Washington we called for the creation of a special commission, in the spirit of the 9/11 commission, to investigate the origins of the attack, the preparations in advance of the event, and the reasons for the unprecedented security failure. In the wake of the impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate — where former President Donald Trump escaped conviction when 57 of the 100 senators determined he had incited the attack, short of the necessary 67 — we repeat that call with greater urgency. The politically charged impeachment trial was not a substitute for a clinical, bipartisan and in-depth review of one of the darkest days in the nation’s history. In refusing to convict, 43 Republican senators chose to either ignore the overwhelming evidence that Trump had indeed incited the insurrection and/or made the claim that Trump, because he is now a former president, could not be convicted and banned from future office.