{"id":1558844,"date":"2022-07-18T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558844"},"modified":"2022-07-18T06:35:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:35:09","slug":"stefanik-criticizes-jan-6-committee-for-keeping-pelosi-off-limits-from-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stefanik-criticizes-jan-6-committee-for-keeping-pelosi-off-limits-from-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefanik Criticizes Jan. 6 Committee for Keeping Pelosi \u2018Off-Limits\u2019 From Probe"},"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\">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%2Fstefanik-criticizes-jan-6-committee-for-keeping-pelosi-off-limits-from-probe%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=1558844&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--><p>House GOP Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) has called out Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the Jan. 6 Committee, questioning why House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> (D-Calif.) has remained \u201coff-limits\u201d from the committee\u2019s scrutiny over the events that led up to violence on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have only one office that\u2019s off-limits to investigation and that office is Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office,\u201d Stefanik <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/january-6-committee-chair-bennie-thompson-continues-keep-pelosi-off-limits-scrutiny-stefanik\">told<\/a> Fox News\u2019 \u201cLife, Liberty and Levin\u201d on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBennie Thompson said at the start of this witch hunt that everything is fair game,\u201d she added, \u201cexcept for the speaker of the House\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In October 2021, Thompson told CNN that \u201cnobody is off-limits\u201d from the committee\u2019s investigation, including former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e know that the speaker\u2019s office was made aware of potential threats, potential violence that day. They failed to do their job to ensure the Capitol Police had the support they needed to secure the Capitol,\u201d Stefanik said. \u201cAnd they have not turned over the communication with the sergeant at arms office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/07\/13\/Bennie-Thompson-GettyImages-1241859713-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Chairman and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) arrives for a hearing on \u201cthe January 6th Investigation\u201d on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 12, 2022. (Saul Loeb\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi is facing questions about claims that she rejected a preemptive National Guard presence ahead of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. According to former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, he requested that the National Guard be brought in to ensure the Jan. 6 rally went smoothly. However, Sund claims that Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, overseen by Pelosi, rejected the request, citing concerns over the \u201coptics\u201d of deploying Guard personnel in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Sund\u2019s requests were eventually denied or postponed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/outgoing-capitol-hill-police-chief-says-efforts-to-summon-national-guard-were-thwarted-report_3652007.html\">six times<\/a>, according to his interview with The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people deserve to have that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP Conference Chairwoman Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) has called out Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chair of the Jan. 6 Committee, questioning why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has remained \u201coff-limits\u201d from the committee\u2019s scrutiny over the events that led up to violence on Jan. 6, 2021. \u201cYou have only one office that\u2019s off-limits to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"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-1558844","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\/1558844","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\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558844\/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=1558844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}