Posted on 02/03/2021 2:58:44 AM PST by Libloather
Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced a series of a measures to increase security for lawmakers in the wake of the assault on the Capitol building while calling for the creation of a commission to conduct a large-scale investigation into the "terrorist mob attack on Jan. 6."
The California Democrat told her colleagues in a letter Tuesday night that they need to "establish a 9/11-type commission" to probe and report the causes and security failures that made it possible for a mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump to breach the building, sending lawmakers certifying the election win of President Joe Biden into hiding.
At least five people died as a direct result of the attack, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick who was lying in honor at the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday night.
Pelosi also said the ongoing security threat members of Congress face necessitates an emergency supplemental funding bill.
"The security of the U.S. Capitol Complex and all who serve and work in it is of the highest priority," she wrote. "Protecting the Capitol, which is the heart of our democracy, is essential to upholding our constitutional duty to serve those whom we are privileged to represent."
To ensure the safety of lawmakers, the House Sergeant at Arms and the U.S. Capitol Police force will be partnering with several federal law enforcement agencies to increase security for the congressmen as they travel to and from Washington, D.C., Pelosi said.
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I think it's more accurate to say that 1 person died as a direct result. She was gunned down by a government employee.
You see in a mostly peaceful protest the folks “don’t need no steenking badges” patrolling the streets.
Now, an insurrection, that’s different.
Hey Nancy you want a probe look in the mirror YOU refused the extra security are you INSANE???
Someone noted that Pelosi is developing agitated paranoid dementia
This could be a manifestation
What happened at the Capitol only happened because someone who was in charge let it happen. Just as Antifa/blm riots happened because demonrat politicians let them happen and in fact wanted the destruction.
She can have D.C.. I don’t need it.
4 months of rioting with the oligarchs giving them a free pass led some people to assume that they too would be allowed to riot.
“them” set up this lame attack to misdirect attention from the coup they just ..so far successfully.. ran on “us”
thats really all there is to it
The worst of most of the “rioters” that I saw at the Capitol had their feet up on the desk, and some even went past the velvet ropes to sit down on a bench against the wall.
What’s next? TSA on the front steps of the capitol?
Wasnt she in charge of security for the Capitol? This sounds like a fantastic idea. We will find a few things out .... that there were lots of leftists amongst the crowd stiring up the crowd....that it was organized mainly on Twitter FB and Insta....and that it was in fact a failure of Nancy herself, a serious lack of awareness and reaction to a march that they knew was coming (prior to Trump asking them to make their voices heard peacefully and patriotically) that compounded the the nature of the riot. lets do this Nance!!
Probe her.
Post traumatic Trump derangement syndrome.
PTTDS
the 9/11 Commission was more lies. Just a whitewash of the Mooselip cult.
Lets find out what really happened after we impeach Trump.
They sure didn’t sing this tune when Steve Scalise was shot...damn them
1/6 was an inside job and Nanzi knows it.
How about a 9/11-type commission’ to probe insider stock trades?.
Nothing would clean up congress and senate like that would.
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