Nancy Pelosi says she will create a '9/11-type' commission to investigate the Capitol insurrection
- Nancy Pelosi announced plans to establish a “9/11-type Commission” to investigate the Capitol riot.
- She said she wanted the panel to look into the “preparedness and response” of Capitol police.
- More than 250 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced plans on Monday to create a “9/11-type commission” to investigate the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
She announced her plan for the commission in a letter to House Democrats that was shared on her website.
“To protect our security, our security, our security, our next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission,” she wrote. The commission would “investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021 domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex,” she wrote.
She said she also wanted the panel to look into the “preparedness and response” from Capitol police and other law enforcement officers at the attack, in which five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died.
Pelosi said that retired Lt. General Russel Honoré has been reviewing the Capitol’s “security infrastructure” in the weeks since the riot, and is currently looking into how to ensure an attack does not happen again.
“He has been working with Committees of Jurisdiction and will continue to make proposals. It is clear from his findings and from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of how this happened,” she said.
Nearly six weeks after the pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, more than 5,000 National Guard troops are still stationed at the Capitol complex, and are expected to stay until at least mid-March, Reuters reported.
More than 250 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot, though former President Donald Trump was acquitted on a charge of inciting insurrection on Saturday.
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