{"id":1519429,"date":"2022-06-16T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519429"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:50:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:50:32","slug":"j6-committee-ignores-capitol-security-failures-in-hearing-focused-on-mike-pence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/j6-committee-ignores-capitol-security-failures-in-hearing-focused-on-mike-pence\/","title":{"rendered":"J6 Committee Ignores Capitol Security Failures In Hearing Focused On Mike Pence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fj6-committee-ignores-capitol-security-failures-in-hearing-focused-on-mike-pence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519429&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Third-J6-Hearing.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 continued its show trials Thursday in the panel\u2019s third hearing on the Capitol riot probing everything but the riot.  <\/p>\n<p>Retired federal judge Michael Luttig and former White House counsel for Vice President Mike Pence, Greg Jacob, testified before the committee on the vice president\u2019s role certifying the election results over President Donald Trump\u2019s objections. <\/p>\n<p>Luttig told the committee Pence\u2019s compliance with Trump\u2019s orders to halt certification of the 2020 contest \u201cwould have been the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I had been advising the vice president of the United States on Jan. 6,\u201d Luttig said, \u201cI would have laid my body across the road before I would have let the vice president overturn the 2020 election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel spent hours reviewing Trump\u2019s efforts through theories espoused by attorney and law professor John Eastman to convince the vice president to thwart the electoral process on Jan. 6. Pence ultimately rebuked the president and continued with certification until the mob breached Capitol security interrupting the joint session of Congress. The vice president was taken to a secure location under the complex while rioters chanted \u201chang Mike Pence\u201d above.<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 Committee characteristically dedicated little time to the Capitol security failures that put Pence\u2019s safety in jeopardy, and instead blamed Trump for doing so through a pressure campaign to stop the count.<\/p>\n<p>After about two hours, the House panel finally detailed Pence\u2019s whereabouts at the Capitol as rioters overwhelmed police and entered the chambers. <\/p>\n<p>California Democrat Rep. Pete Aguilar, who led Thursday\u2019s questioning, asked Pence counsel Jacobs, who was with the vice president throughout the riot about the day\u2019s events. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cForty feet between the vice president and the mob,\u201d Aguilar said after playing footage from the Capitol. \u201cMr. Jacob, you were there, seeing that for the first time, does it surprise you to see how close the mob was to the evacuation route that you took?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could hear the din of the rioters in the building while we moved but I don\u2019t think I was aware that they were as close as that,\u201d Jacobs said, and was later asked to recount how his faith comforted him amid the riot.<\/p>\n<p>The questioning was obviously designed to solicit emotion for a committee operating with the sole purpose of smearing political dissidents without any legitimate legislative value. If Aguilar and the rest of the panel were seriously concerned about Pence\u2019s safety and the circumstances that led to the vice president being forced to shelter in a secure location, a more appropriate subject for questioning would have been former House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving. If not Irving, then any other top official involved in maintaining Capitol security or Pence\u2019s secret service detail, which must have coordinated with officials at the complex. <\/p>\n<p>As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s chief security officer in the lower chamber, Irving is at the center of the controversy surrounding the failures that led the mob into the Capitol. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/sund-riot-national-guard\/2021\/01\/10\/fc2ce7d4-5384-11eb-a817-e5e7f8a406d6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According<\/a> to former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, Irving and Pelosi refused to deploy the National Guard to reinforce the Capitol security team six times. Irving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/insurrection-at-the-capitol\/2021\/01\/15\/957239755\/pelosi-taps-honore-retired-military-leader-to-lead-capitol-security-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> the National Guard presence would be bad \u201coptics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Capitol Police, meanwhile, were ill-equipped and ill-trained to handle the horde of demonstrators who flooded the Capitol, according to a 128-page bipartisan Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rules.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/Jan%206%20HSGAC%20Rules%20Report.pdf\">report<\/a>, and were only <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/09\/5-questions-that-must-answered-before-the-j6-committee-begins-its-theatrical-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half-staffed<\/a> on Jan. 6. Irving, however, refused cooperation with lawmakers in the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 continued its show trials Thursday in the panel\u2019s third hearing on the Capitol riot probing everything but the riot. 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