{"id":247447,"date":"2021-03-18T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=247447"},"modified":"2021-03-18T13:30:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T17:30:33","slug":"report-pelosi-will-tap-top-dems-to-investigate-capitol-attack-not-9-11-style-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pelosi-will-tap-top-dems-to-investigate-capitol-attack-not-9-11-style-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pelosi Will Tap Top Dems To Investigate Capitol Attack, Not \u20189\/11-Style Commission\u2019"},"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\">26<\/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%2Freport-pelosi-will-tap-top-dems-to-investigate-capitol-attack-not-9-11-style-commission%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=247447&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\/2021\/02\/Pelosi-1-3.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will tap leading Democrats \u2014 all of whom have already made statements on the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol \u2014 to investigate the attack, rather than appoint a \u201c9\/11-style commission\u201d as promised after a plan for the latter became mired in \u201cpolitical quicksand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before a 9\/11-style commission could be impaneled, Democrats began their own inquiries, opening up a Senate investigation, chaired by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), and planning a number of House investigations on the subject, leaving Pelosi\u2019s initial plan for a bipartisan probe into who and what led up to the January 6th riot, far behind.<\/p>\n<p>The two parties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/03\/17\/pelosis-9-11-style-commission-on-capitol-riot-stalls-in-political-quicksand-476801\">Politico reports<\/a>, could not agree on a format for the commission, nor whether the parties should be represented in even numbers. Democrats have long contended that Republicans who supported then-President Donald Trump\u2019s bid for a comprehensive investigation into allegations of widespread voter fraud should be iced out of the commission altogether, to avoid it becoming an adversarial process.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Pelosi also said that the inquiry would have \u201cnothing to do with President Trump,\u201d but a second impeachment attempt, that ended in acquittal, could change her outlook on the scope of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the commission, Pelosi pledged that the project would \u201cinvestigate and report on the facts and causes relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex\u201d and the rioters \u201cinterference with the peaceful transfer of power, including facts and causes relating to the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement in the National Capitol Region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Amy Klobuchar\u2019s panel is already doing something similar, and the \u201crelatively well-functioning Senate inquiry\u201d has \u201calready helped provide the sort of answers an independent entity might take months to produce,\u201d according to Politico.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of letting the idea of an inquiry go, allowing Klobuchar to continue her work, Pelosi now says that she\u2019ll pass off the job of an \u201cintermediate investigation\u201d to three Democrat-chaired and Democrat-run committees.<\/p>\n<p>An aide told Politico that \u201cthe California Democrat is prepared to task the House Administration, Homeland Security and Appropriations committees with taking on the Jan. 6 inquiry if there are no bipartisan breakthroughs soon. The Appropriations panel has already gotten a head start, holding hearings on the Capitol Police budget that featured questions about the force\u2019s role in the response to the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That decision could severely compromise the investigation\u2019s impartiality. The House Administration Committee is chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), whose office examined Republican Members\u2019 social media posts in the wake of the Capitol attack with an eye toward disciplining any GOP official who she believed \u201cincited\u201d the riot or questioned official election results.<\/p>\n<p>Lofgren pledged to submit for impeachment \u201cany elected member of Congress who aided and abetted the insurrection or incited the attack seriously threatened our democratic government,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/taking-names-democratic-rep-lofgren-catalogues-gop-colleagues-election-claims-n1259742\">according to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The House Homeland Security Committee is chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), who filed suit against former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and two \u201cright-wing extremist\u201d groups, seeking \u201cdamages for the emotional distress he suffered during the Jan. 6 mob attack on the Capitol,\u201d and alleges that Trump \u201cacted beyond the outer perimeter of his official duties\u201d in directing the mob \u201cand therefore is susceptible to suit in his personal capacity,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/2021\/02\/16\/16trumplawsuit\/\">according to Roll Call<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>House Appropriations Committee chair, Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-CT), who has already initiated her own investigation into the Capitol riots, has already decided precisely who is at fault for the attack, alleging in a statement made shortly after the riots that, \u201cthis was a coup attempt instigated by President Trump. Everyone who has aided and abetted him for the past four years bears responsibility for today\u2019s violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will tap leading Democrats \u2014 all of whom have already made statements on the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310750,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Pelosi-1-3.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Pelosi Will Tap Top Dems To Investigate Capitol Attack, Not \u20189\/11-Style Commission\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Pelosi-1-3.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Report: Pelosi Will Tap Top Dems To Investigate Capitol Attack, Not \u20189\/11-Style Commission\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247447","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}