As the Jan. 6 committee holds its first hearing Tuesday, lawmakers’ primary focus will be the storming of the Capitol. Law enforcement witnesses will discuss how that day unfolded, and what they saw as they defended the building against the rioters who flooded in, seeking to confront members of Congress.
Hopefully the Committee staff have already been requesting information from National Archives, Joint Chiefs/Pentagon as well as Nat Guard leadership.
ETA - keep Trump and his acolytes busy trying to block release of information, so their ability to shit-stir on other topics is restrained by scarce resources including time.
ETA2 - fucking flood the zone. Requests to former officials who like to go on the teevee, the office of Hon. Gym Jordan, Cawthorn, Greene, Boebert etc Al. Keep on the back foot and too busy to get situated. And lean on the media to follow through.
Sorry to go OT but
The GOP are also almost never held to any account. They have run roughshod over the last 2 decades of American life.
Any avenue will do.
4 decades.
In typical Democrat fashion…
Yes, let’s shoot it down before it even starts, right TPM?
Yeesh.
Nice overview. I think we have the perfect committee in place to accomplish this goal. None of them have any interest in protecting Who? or his minions.
“The attack didn’t start on Jan. 6, and the crime scene extends far beyond the Capitol.” 9/11 happened after months of training and planning. What an idiotic and inane observation, TPM. I thought you were better than this.
The committee will accomplish a lot if they are serious about an investigation. If it’s too much about grandstanding, it won’t accomplish much more than what the press has already reported, and the occasional report on the DOJ’s prosecutions.
A bit of fear-mongering in that headline? The House bill enacted to form the committee – H.R.3233 – says the committee can look into the root causes and not just focus on that one day.
Passed House (05/19/2021)
National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex ActThis bill establishes in the legislative branch the National Commission to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol Complex.
The commission must (1) conduct an investigation of the relevant facts and circumstances relating to the attack on the Capitol; (2) identify, review, and evaluate the causes of and the lessons learned from this attack; and (3) submit specified reports containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations to improve the detection, prevention, preparedness for, and response to targeted violence and domestic terrorism and improve the security posture of the U.S. Capitol Complex.
The bill gives the commission specified powers, including the authority to hold hearings, receive evidence, and issue subpoenas. The bill also provides for the composition of the commission and the appointment of staff, and it requires the commission to hold public hearings and meetings to the extent that it is appropriate. The commission must also release public versions of its reports.
Sir, as an actual hillbilly, I approve this cartoon…
This is not a group that tends to grandstand.
You kind of need to start with the mindset that everything Trump, his gang, and most Republicans did was corrupt, criminal, and unconstitutional. The facts and evidence cannot be examined as if any kind of normalcy was in play.
If the Democrats don’t “have what it takes” they best find it or we’ll end up with another Bob Mueller fiasco and all the perps will walk. The MSM keeps, at GOP signalling, dragging “bipartisan” into this shit show. The riot was not bipartisan. It was 100% GOP’er and uber GOP’er at that. If this country is to go back to what it was ( the gist of Make America Great Again ) it best find the stones to deal with this insurrection or we can hang up our Stars and Stripes underwear and let it all rot around us. Push on. There will be MSM chatter about “plating politics” but no shit. That’s what politicians do. It will be labeled unfair and a witch hunt. Push on.
The politics in this mess is not being played by the Democrats. They’re playing the America card. They should act like that. Make that clear and let all the interviews asking lame questions framed from GOP talking points know that they intend to push on. If this fails to get to the truth think of the precedent it sets. That should be the go to point.
A point well worth making over and over and over again…
More violence.? This time the violence can be directed toward those that are formenting it…with fury, vigor aand consequences not blunted by traitors.
Kalo and others with whom TPM spoke said such a reckoning would need to go back to at least last year, when Trump and his allies, surrogates and attorneys began sowing the seeds for a contested election.
You’re right it needs to go back more than a year, it needs to go all the way back to 2016! Don’t you remember? Even your article seems to imply this conspiracy started in 2020. It did not. It started before Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, when he was already spreading disinformation. And don’t you remember he created that bogus commission to investigate ‘fraud’, and then disbanded it without doing anything, because of course they found nothing? Anyway, there are a million articles about it, check out this one… again from 2016!
The president-elect is sowing doubt about the integrity of America’s elections, and may hope to reap a harvest of discriminatory voting laws.
My hope is this Committee does a “Deep Dive” on this Insurrection. My fear is considering the history of Democrats going to gun fights with a pocket knife, I have my doubts.
Notes from the bedwetting wing of the Democratic party.
7+ decades if you start with McCarthyism, and Roy Cohn-Roger Stone are a through line.