Ahead of the House January 6 committee’s final report, the five Republicans who were originally nominated to sit on the select committee on Wednesday released a counter-report on security failures at the Capitol, which they said “the Democrat-led investigation has thus far ignored.”
Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., and Troy Nehls, R-Texas, largely blamed bureaucratic mismanagement and “political pressures” from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., exerted on the House Sergeant at Arms that left U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) unprepared for the violence of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.
“When Speaker Pelosi made the unprecedented decision to reject Jim Banks and Jim Jordan from sitting on the January 6 Select Committee — we knew she intended to play politics instead of addressing the massive security failures that lead to that day,” the lawmakers said in a statement.
“We said then that we would investigate and get to the bottom of why the Capitol was left so unprepared that day, and what needs to be done to make sure our security apparatus is never left so unprepared again,” they added. “Unsurprisingly, the Select Committee appears to have spent almost no time on this issue. We release the following report to answer these questions, and to lay groundwork for security reforms as we prepare to lead a safer and more secure Campus in the 118th Congress and beyond.”
JAN. 6 COMMITTEE RELEASES 154-PAGE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY DETAILING TRUMP’S ‘UNLAWFUL’ CONDUCT, CRIMINAL REFERRALS
Rioters loyal to then-President Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. One rioter, Dustin Byron Thompson, was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in the attack
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
The GOP report blames “leadership and law enforcement failures” for making the Capitol vulnerable. It said changes to USCP intelligence protocols in the lead-up to Jan. 6 “caused confusion and rendered…
