How odd

Congress is discussing doing an investigation on the riot.

Democrats and Republicans have made fresh calls for a 9/11-style bipartisan commission to investigate how rioters were able to breach the Capitol on 6 January. After the 2001 terrorist attacks, a commission reviewed how the incidents were possible and laid out plans to prevent them being repeated. Now politicians on both sides of the aisle have called for the deadly Capitol siege to be given the same treatment.

In a way the answer seems obvious – the Capitol is not normally fenced off and guarded by soldiers, so it wasn’t that day. On the other hand that day wasn’t a normal one, what with Trump’s well-advertised plan to do a speech telling his fans how badly he’d been cheated, so maybe the investigation is not so much into how rioters were able to breach the Capitol as into why the Capitol wasn’t made impossible to breach.

Then again some people think there’s nothing much to investigate.

Ah good point. Cool then. They haven’t insurrected since, so they never will.

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