House Republicans gathered a trove of text and email messages showing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office was directly involved in the creation and editing of the Capitol security plan that failed during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and that security officials later declared they had been "denied again and again" the resources needed to protect one of the nation's most important homes of democracy
The report concludes the Capitol was left vulnerable on Jan. 6 as a result of failures by the Democratic leadership in the House and law enforcement leaders in the Capitol Police
- They allowed concerns about the “optics” of having armed officers and National Guardsmen visible to the public to override the need for enhanced security.
The report also revealed that two key staffers in Pelosi's office attended regular meetings to discuss the security plan for Jan. 6 dating back to early December 2020 and that Pelosi's top aide even edited some of the plans.
- Most of those discussions and meetings excluded Republican lawmakers in the House, the report noted.
The GOP report directly challenges Pelosi’s claim that she had no power over Capitol Police and the security plan for Jan. 6, 2021
- The report faults Irving for being distracted by other responsibilities and a top intelligence official for the Capitol Police for making changes to intelligence analysis that kept front line officers from knowing the dangers they were about to face that day
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