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As House leaders haggle over the formation of a 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a bipartisan group of senators is pressing ahead with a series of investigative hearings to scrutinize the security breakdowns that failed to prevent the deadly pro-Trump rampage.
From 9/11 to 1/6. Welcome to America’s new national terrorism commission. It’s hardly news that the nation wants to understand what took place nearly seven weeks ago when mobs of supporters of former President Donald Trump tore into the U.S. Capitol, trashing offices, killing one cop and beating up 140 others while also threatening staffers and elected officials and calling for the hanging of then-Vice President Mike Pence. As with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the violence of Jan. 6 was a form of terrorism. But while the 9/11 bloodbath was brought on by Islamist operatives led by Osam...
Joseph Prezioso/Getty Six weeks have passed since domestic terrorists — egged-on by Donald Trump in the waning days of his presidency — led a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, yet nobody really has a full picture of the events of the day, nor of who should be held responsible. That’s why U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is making the right call in pushing for a 9/11-type independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack. The commission will “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Com...
Speaker Pelosi proposes 9/11-type commission to probe US Capitol storming PTI Updated : Feb 16, 2021, 11:48 am IST The Republican former president was accused of inciting riots in the Capitol which left five people, including a police officer, dead US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, with House impeachment managers, speaks to the press after the Senate voted to acquit former US President Donald Trump, in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2021. (Alex Edelman / AFP) Washington: US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed a 9/11-type independent ...
February 16, 2021, 11:08 AM UPDATED: February 16, 2021, 11:08 AM Photo Courtesy: @TeamPelosi/Twitter US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has proposed a 9/11-type independent commission to investigate the storming of the Capitol by supporters of former president Donald Trump on January 6, which is seen as one of the darkest days in the history of America’s democracy. Pelosi said this in a Dear Colleague letter on Monday, less than 50 hours after the Senate — the upper chamber of US Congress — acquitted Trump following an impeachment trial on charges of inciting his suppo...