The leading Republican tasked with his party's investigation into the preparedness and response of the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies to the Capitol riot on January 6 is being blocked by President Joseph Biden's FBI from gathering information, a new document reveals.
The FBI told Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks it would not provide Republicans the same information provided to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's hand-picked committee consisting only of Democrat-appointed members.
Pelosi took what she admitted was an "Unprecedented" step of refusing the appointments made by Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, barring Navy officer and Afghanistan veteran Banks and Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, from participation.
In a fiery denunciation of Pelosi's politicization of the committee, McCarthy, R-Calif., publicly announced Banks would lead Republicans' investigation despite Pelosi blowing up the committee.
Committee chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., took the shocking step of demanding that anybody suspected of participating in any events on January 6 be placed on the no-fly list prior to a trial, much less conviction.
In the three rounds of subpoenas issued by the speaker's Select Committee to date, a majority of those sought for testimony were merely involved with a same-day White House rally and bore no relationship with the separate riot at the Capitol.
Pelosi's Committee has refused to hear testimony from a whistleblower within the Capitol Police as her weaponized probe focuses on private citizen exercise of First Amendment freedoms.
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