{"id":1526585,"date":"2022-06-23T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526585"},"modified":"2022-06-23T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:04:48","slug":"investigators-pelosi-responsible-for-jan-6-security-breakdown-at-u-s-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/investigators-pelosi-responsible-for-jan-6-security-breakdown-at-u-s-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators: Pelosi Responsible For Jan. 6 Security Breakdown At U.S. Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Finvestigators-pelosi-responsible-for-jan-6-security-breakdown-at-u-s-capitol%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=1526585&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\/Screen-Shot-2022-06-23-at-7.18.57-AM-e1655986854897.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shoulders much of the blame for the security breakdown at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a preliminary report from Republican investigators Reps. Jim Banks and Rodney Davis determined. <\/p>\n<p>The Capitol Police (USCP) were half-staffed on Jan. 6, Pelosi\u2019s House Sergeant at Arms denied multiple requests for National Guard assistance from the Pentagon and the USCP Chief in the days leading up to Jan. 6, officers were poorly equipped and had insufficient riot shields and helmets, and they were never trained to handle a riot even after the riots of 2020, the investigation shows, according to Banks.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans\u2019 full report is not slated to be released for a few weeks but Banks and Davis said the hyperpartisan Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s attempt to present a \u201cslanted viewpoint as if it were impartial fact\u201d prompted them to release their findings that \u201cwill help Americans understand the extent of the Committee\u2019s misrepresentations and omissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Committee has lied and made numerous unsupported and disputed claims that have been thoughtlessly parroted by their media and \u2018fact-checking\u2019 allies,\u201d said Banks and Davis. <\/p>\n<p>No Republican-appointed members serve on the committee, and no minority rights have been granted or observed by the committee. Those breaches of House rules have led Administration Committee ranking member Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., to announce there will be <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-cha.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/davis-announces-new-investigation-16-select-committees-activities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an investigation of the J6 Committee itself<\/a> once Republicans take control of the House, as they are expected to do following the November elections.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the J6 Committee\u2019s attempts to blame the Capitol riot on former President Donald Trump and election integrity supporters, the GOP members found that Pelosi, who is responsible for Capitol security <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/117-House-Rules-Clerk.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to House rules<\/a> and has led the Democrat majority for years, repeatedly failed to implement necessary improvements to the Capitol\u2019s security system. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis inaction left the Capitol unnecessarily vulnerable,\u201d Banks and Davis noted. <\/p>\n<p>Banks and Davis pointed to an <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-06\/USCP-Jan6AfterActionReportandRecommendations6-4-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">After-Action Report<\/a> from Capitol Police showing that the law enforcement department reorganized its intelligence without authorization which left it without essential \u201copen-source intelligence capabilities\u201d and caused staffing changes that \u201cmay have contributed to the tragedy\u201d on Jan. 6. <\/p>\n<p>In light of this information, Banks and Davis added that \u201cthe USCP intelligence unit had knowledge of the potential for violence yet failed to adequately communicate the threat or take the necessary steps to protect the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite these shortcomings, the Republicans found that even though the USCP Union largely voted it had no confidence in its intelligence division supervisor, the supervisor was promoted to acting chief following the Capitol riot. <\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy picked Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan to represent Republicans on the committee last year but they were promptly booted off by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi who <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/564122-pelosi-rejects-jordan-banks-for-jan-6-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">implied<\/a> the GOP would hamper a \u201ccomprehensive investigation\u201d into the Capitol riot. <\/p>\n<p>Now Banks, Jordan, Davis, and the two other Republicans who were poised to join the Democrats\u2019 show trial committee before McCarthy pulled them out, are leading their own investigation into the Capitol security breakdown that reviews information hardly touched by Pelosi\u2019s picks who are running the show trial.<\/p>\n<p>Banks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=flO4gQB1vrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> in a recent interview with PBS NewsHour that despite gathering more than 100,000 pages of evidence, the J6 Committee has \u201conly selectively offered the American people a very small part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever forget that this select committee has already been caught altering evidence. They\u2019ve had to apologize for it,\u201d Banks said. \u201cIt\u2019s dishonorable that this isn\u2019t a bipartisan effort to give the American people the facts and the findings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banks has repeatedly criticized Pelosi\u2019s handpicked committee as a \u201cpolitical witch hunt\u201d focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/the-arrogant-true-goal-of-the-j6-committee-is-to-slander-and-shame-conservatives-out-of-the-public-sphere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slandering conservatives<\/a>, especially those who express concerns about election integrity, instead of getting to the bottom of what really happened on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans were denied the right to meaningfully participate in the Democrats\u2019 show trial, but as you know, the five of us are leading our own independent investigation into the total breakdown of security at the Capitol. Our mission is to answer simple questions about what happened that day that Democrats have ignored,\u201d Banks and Davis said. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans have committed to \u201claunching a full investigation into the actions of the Select Committee and hold Speaker Pelosi accountable\u201d assuming GOP gains in the House of Representatives in the November midterms.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shoulders much of the blame for the security breakdown at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a preliminary report from Republican investigators Reps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}