House Republicans release counter report on Jan. 6 security failures at Capitol - Fox News

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Ahead of the House January 6 committee's last report, the 5 Republicans who were primitively nominated to beryllium connected the prime committee connected Wednesday released a counter-report connected security failures astatine the Capitol, which they said "the Democrat-led probe has frankincense acold ignored."

Reps. Jim Banks, R-Ind., Rodney Davis, R-Ill., Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., and Troy Nehls, R-Texas, mostly blamed bureaucratic mismanagement and "political pressures" from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., exerted connected the House Sergeant astatine Arms that near U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) unprepared for the unit of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.

"When Speaker Pelosi made the unprecedented determination to cull Jim Banks and Jim Jordan from sitting connected the January 6 Select Committee — we knew she intended to play authorities alternatively of addressing the monolithic information failures that pb to that day," the lawmakers said successful a statement.

"We said past that we would analyse and get to the bottom of wherefore the Capitol was near truthful unprepared that day, and what needs to beryllium done to marque definite our information apparatus is ne'er near truthful unprepared again," they added. "Unsurprisingly, the Select Committee appears to person spent astir nary clip connected this issue. We merchandise the pursuing study to reply these questions, and to laic groundwork for information reforms arsenic we hole to pb a safer and much unafraid Campus successful the 118th Congress and beyond."

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Rioters loyal to then-President Trump rally astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington connected Jan. 6, 2021. One rioter, Dustin Byron Thompson, was sentenced to 3 years successful situation for his relation successful the attack (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

The GOP study blames "leadership and instrumentality enforcement failures" for making the Capitol vulnerable. It said changes to USCP quality protocols successful the lead-up to Jan. 6 "caused disorder and rendered a cardinal USCP constituent ineffective" during the mob violence.

Republicans accused erstwhile House Sergeant astatine Arms Paul Irving of being "compromised by politics," coordinating intimately with Pelosi and her unit but leaving GOP lawmakers retired of discussions astir security. The study said Democratic leaders were acrophobic implicit the "optics" of deploying the National Guard successful effect to the riot, fixed the Black Lives Matter riots that took spot successful the summertime of 2020. The GOP lawmakers alleged these concerns prevented aboriginal deployment of the National Guard.

"To marque matters worse, systemic issues person crippled the information apparatus for years. USCP enactment officers were under-trained and ill-equipped to support the Capitol complex," the study said. "One serviceman testified to investigators that helium went into the combat connected January 6, 2021 with thing but his USCP-issued shot cap. Even if each USCP serviceman had been astatine enactment that day, their numbers would inactive person been insufficient to clasp disconnected the rioters owed to a deficiency of grooming and equipment. The USCP was acceptable up to fail, and determination person been scant signs of advancement toward addressing these weaknesses."

Republicans said the grounds gathered successful their study came from witnesses and USCP sources whose identities are protected for fearfulness of retaliation. Additionally, the House investigators interviewed USCP Chief Tom Manger, House Sergeant astatine Arms William Walker, and the Assistant Director of the Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division Julie Farnam. The probe besides relied connected nationalist documents and quality reports to supplement their findings.

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) be a quality league connected July 21, 2021, successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The GOP study is meant to supplement a bipartisan report released by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee and the Committee connected Rules and Administration past year. That study identified respective security, readying and effect failures starring up to the riot, including FBI and Homeland Security quality officials neglecting to pass of imaginable unit and USPC unpreparedness.

"The quality failures, coupled with the Capitol Police Board’s nonaccomplishment to petition National Guard assistance anterior to January 6th, meant the District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) was not activated, staged, and prepared to rapidly respond to an onslaught connected the Capitol," the Senate study found.

Pelosi has repeatedly denied GOP allegations that she oregon her bureau prevented the National Guard from deploying, oregon different ignored threats of unit starring up to the riot.

The Democrat-led Jan. 6 prime committee is expected merchandise its last study connected the Capitol riot Thursday. Seven Democrats and the 2 anti-Trump Republicans connected the committee, Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., person for months alleged that the "insurrection" mounted by former President Trump's supporters was the last measurement successful his program to overturn the results of the 2020 statesmanlike election.

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Violent protesters, loyal to then-President Trump, tempest the Capitol successful Washington connected Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

The committee released a 154-page enforcement summary of their findings connected Monday and referred transgression charges against Trump to the Justice Department.

"What Donald Trump proceeded to bash aft the 2020 predetermination is thing nary president had done earlier successful our country," said Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. "In a staggering betrayal of his oath, Donald Trump attempted a program that led to an onslaught connected a pillar of our democracy."

The sheet argued during the committee's last gathering that Trump's behaviour earlier and aft Jan. 6 was "unlawful." Lawmakers accidental they person capable grounds that Trump obstructed an authoritative proceeding of Congress, conspired to defraud the national government, made a mendacious statement, and incited, assisted oregon aided an insurrection.

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Over its 18-month tenure, the committee obtained entree to tens of thousands of documents and conducted astir 1,000 interviews related to the Capitol protests.