{"id":2379609,"date":"2024-12-13T05:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-looks-to-refocus-jan-6-inquiries-on-capitol-security-problems-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-13T05:14:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:14:50","slug":"house-republican-looks-to-refocus-jan-6-inquiries-on-capitol-security-problems-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republican-looks-to-refocus-jan-6-inquiries-on-capitol-security-problems-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republican looks to refocus Jan. 6 inquiries on Capitol security problems &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fhouse-republican-looks-to-refocus-jan-6-inquiries-on-capitol-security-problems-washington-examiner%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=2379609&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 Republicans are seeking to refocus their investigations into the January 6 Capitol riot,\u200b looking specifically at whether internal politicization led to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-kicks-off-so-called-progressive-package-with-decades-old-policies\/\" title=\"Joe Biden kicks off so-called progressive package with decades-old policies\">systemic problems<\/a>&#8221; \u200cwithin Capitol \u200csecurity. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) aims to \u200cestablish a House subcommittee \u200bin the upcoming Congress \u2063to continue the inquiry and address findings\u200c from previous \u2064investigations, which <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">suggested undue political influence<\/a> \u200cwithin\u200b the\u200b U.S. Capitol Police impacted their security decisions. Loudermilk,who has been \u200bleading an\u2063 Oversight\u200c subcommittee\u200d examining the January 6 attack,believes there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-bends-knee-to-teacher-union-allows-remote-learning-after-threat-of-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Bends Knee to Teacher Union, Allows Remote Learning After Threat of Strike\">remaining issues<\/a> to \u200dexplore regarding the\u2064 events\u200d of\u200d that\u2063 day,emphasizing\u2062 a \u2064need to understand the underlying systemic \u200bissues affecting Capitol security.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">House Republican looks to refocus Jan. 6 investigations on &lsquo;systemic problems&rsquo; within Capitol security<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1890749\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE &mdash; <\/strong>House Republicans are looking to continue their investigations into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/january-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jan. 6 riot<\/a> at the Capitol, this time turning their attention to security personnel and whether internal politicization caused &ldquo;systemic problems&rdquo; that led to failures that day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) is angling to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/january-6-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">create a House subcommittee<\/a> in the next Congress to continue investigating the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3258901\/watchdog-reveals-fbi-had-26-undercover-sources-in-dc-during-jan-6-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Capitol riot<\/a>, building on efforts from the last two years that he says found &ldquo;undue political influence&rdquo; within the U.S. Capitol Police that affect its security decisions. Loudermilk&rsquo;s proposal comes as the Georgia Republican has led an Oversight subcommittee looking into the Jan. 6 attack, noting, &ldquo;There&rsquo;s still some things that are hanging out there&rdquo; in terms of what happened on that day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s other things that we started uncovering, which are systemic problems within our own security of the Capitol, with Capitol Police &mdash; not the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-sens-if-police-reform-is-going-to-happen-must-be-before-july\/\" title=\"GOP Sens.: If police reform is going to happen, must be before July\">front-line officers<\/a> but within a system that has been heavily politicized,&rdquo; Loudermilk told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>in a sit-down interview. &ldquo;That has to be taken care of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk was tapped by then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy to <a href=\"https:\/\/cha.house.gov\/2024\/3\/chairman-loudermilk-releases-january-6-initial-findings-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">lead the investigation<\/a> into the Democratic-controlled Jan. 6 committee shortly after Republicans took control of the House in 2023. That investigation was opened after Republicans decried the initial Jan. 6 committee as being weaponized against the GOP which ultimately resulted in what he considers a &ldquo;false report.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his investigation, Loudermilk claimed to have uncovered evidence that the Democratic committee deleted records and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/republicans-launch-investigation-jan-6-committee-examined-riot-rcna74017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">cherry-picked evidence<\/a> to &ldquo;fit the predetermined political narrative&rdquo; that blamed President-elect Donald Trump for the attack. While investigating those claims, Loudermilk said he also discovered a perceived class system among Capitol security that was determined by outside &ldquo;political influence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk pointed to disparate examples of how Capitol Police officers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/09\/11\/capitol-police-officers-discipline-jan-6-511352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"disciplined\">disciplined<\/a> for different acts, noting some &ldquo;officers with much lesser offenses have received more severe punishment&rdquo; than those who committed those that were worse.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There seems to be a selected class, and a lot of that comes from political influence, and that has to be addressed,&rdquo; Loudermilk said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk said the goal of the select committee would be to issue recommendations and legislation to reform security measures, including changes to how top officials in the Capitol are selected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, the subcommittee would comprise both Republicans and Democrats, Loudermilk said, in order to avoid partisanship or political weaponization. Loudermilk noted he has not yet spoken with any Democrats directly to join the panel if it is created but told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>he believes there is interest from both sides to investigate further.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is about political influence, but it shouldn&rsquo;t be there from either side,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I think it needs to be a very selective group of people who are not dedicated to going out and trying to get a few political points by leaking something, or being the first to go to the press on something, or trying to get a political advantage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Loudermilk said he has spoken briefly with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to approve the creation of a select committee next Congress, telling the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>he hopes to speak in-depth about the proposal next week.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>contacted Capitol Police for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1890749\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1890749\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP aims to shift Jan. 6 probe to Capitol security issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2379610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/barry-loudermilk--scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[46712,34504,46711,32603,32076],"class_list":["post-2379609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-capitol-security","tag-house-republican","tag-jan-6-inquiries","tag-political-news","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/barry-loudermilk--scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379609","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\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2379609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2379613,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379609\/revisions\/2379613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2379610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}