9/11 commission leaders warn Pelosi on arrangement of Jan. 6 protest panel
Two prominent leaders of the 9/11 Commission have warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about forming an unbalanced panel to investigate the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol, stressing that Republican voters will never accept the findings of a Democratic panel.
In mid-February, Pelosi announced that Congress has decided to establish an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol, similar to the one set up in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Later, she said that her recommendation for the panel is to be made up of seven Democratic senators and four Republican ones, which aroused the Republicans' harsh criticism, including the leaders of the original commission, Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton.
“That does not sound to me like a good start; it sounds like a partisan beginning,” Hamilton told Politico.
“Unless you have equal representation … the report won’t have as much confidence from the American people. It won’t be as reliable,” Kean noted.
Meanwhile, House minority leader Kevin Mccarthy repeated the Senate minority leader Mitch Mcconnell’s stance towards the panel, reiterating that the Republicans and Democrats must have the same number of picks as well as equal subpoena authority.
In response, the office of Nancy Pelosi accused the GOPers of playing politics and said that her proposal was only a “discussion draft.”
On January 6, then-US President Donald Trump incited his own supporters, including members of Proud Boys, to storm the US Capitol building, where lawmakers were in the process of confirming now-President Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election.
The protest resulted in the death of at least five people, including a police officer who was guarding the Congress building.
It also prompted a historic second impeachment vote against Trump, which finally ended with acquittal of the former president. Lawmakers had cited Trump’s incitement of an insurrection against the US government in the single article of impeachment.
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