Thursday, March 16, 2023

This is what the Republicans are doing with their time

FFS.
House Republicans are creating a committee to "reinvestigate" the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

More than two months after the historic House Jan. 6 select committee disbanded and published its final report on the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, House Republicans are launching their own review of the Capitol riot.

They plan to emphasize a different focus Jan. 6 with their panel. And the Georgia Republican who will chair the new panel is using the phrases "investigate both sides" and "show what really happened on Jan. 6" to describe the committee's work.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Republican of Georgia, and chairman of the House Administration subcommittee on Oversight, said his panel will "aggressively" work to review the security failures that contributed to the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, and will investigate the conduct and performance of the prior House Jan. 6 select committee, which gathered millions of pages of documents and hundreds of interviews in 2021 and 2022, including with key members of the Trump inner circle.

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Other congressional panels and government auditors have already conducted investigations and released reports into security and intelligence failures, including a series of reviews by the Government Accountability Office and a report by the Senate Homeland Security committee.

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Loudermilk said his new subcommittee is reviewing two million pages of documents compiled by the House Jan. 6 select panel.

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Loudermilk said his panel is also reviewing some of the 40,000 hours of police videos, the same tranche of footage that Speaker Kevin McCarthy recently provided exclusively to Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

  CBS
And Tucker hasn't even come up with anything to counter the Jan 6 report.
"What I'd like to do is show what really happened on Jan. 6," Loudermilk said. "When asked by CBS News what he meant by the phrase "what really happened," he responded, "Where was the security failure and why were we not ready?"
Ready for what? For tourists? Which is it: peaceful tourists or insurrectionist rioters?
"It's unfortunate that this has become a political theater for them," Torres said. "For them, it is a show. They want a different ending to the movie, to the horror show."
And do they think bringing it all out again is going to help them win over any voters?
[Loudermilk] told CBS News, "Americans have very little confidence in the report that they put out. And there's good reason. I mean, you even consider what they did to me, the false allegations that they made against me regarding the constituents that I had in my office in the office buildings — accusing me of giving reconnaissance tours."

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Loudermilk said his panel would "be honest, show the truth, show both sides." When pressed by CBS News about how Jan. 6 had "two sides," Loudermilk reiterated his criticism about the scrutiny he was given for the tour group by the Jan. 6 select committee.
Ah, I see. It's all about Laudermilk's feelings. Jesus wept.
No public hearings of the new subcommittee have been announced. But unlike the original Jan. 6 select committee, the minority party will not boycott the new subcommittee's hearings and proceedings.
No, I'm sure they don't want public hearings.  They just want some things to cherry pick out and write up.  Or at least Laudermilk wants something on the record to make himself look better.

Fucking waste of taxpayer money. Not to mention the opportunity cost of preventing actual necessary congressional work to be done.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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