New evidence gathered by Rep. Barry Loudermilk's House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight's investigation into Capitol security on Jan. 6, and the breach, shows that the Democrat-led Select Committee's investigation missed some of the most important evidence of security failures and missteps that led to the events of that day.
Years of investigation and multiple reports later, the official January 6 probe from the Select Committee missed several key developments that have now come to forefront in the debate over how the U.S. government can learn from what happened on the day the U.S. Capitol was breached.
HBO documentary footage shot by then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi's daughter showing the the House leader expressing responsibility for the failure; Top Pelosi security aides-especially the House Sergeant-at-Arms-received security briefings before Jan. 6 that suggested a breach of the Capitol was possible; The Trump Pentagon offered National Guard support for days before Jan. 6 riot but was rebuked; Footage showing assembled protestors entering through and unsecured and unlocked door at the Capitol building; The Government Accountability Office reported highlighted intelligence failures that led to Capitol breach; and.
The videotape, which Loudermilk posted publicly on social media on X, and has been uploaded to various platforms, shows that the then-Speaker at least appears to recognize that Democratic leadership at the Capitol perhaps bore some responsibility for the security failures.
Another significant piece of evidence ignored by the Select Committee's final report is that despite President Trump's rhetoric calling for senators and representatives to decline to count electoral votes from states where he believed fraud was committed, Trump's Defense Department offered National Guard troops to protect the Capitol just days before Jan. 6.
Last year, the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress concluded that the Capitol Police, the FBI, and eight other federal agencies had gathered intelligence that certain extremists were planning to commit violence at the Capitol on January 6, but that they failed to adapt security protocols and get threat assessments to key decision-makers, Just the News previously reported.
Just the News previously reported that security footage from the Capitol complex shows that the Secret Service brought Vice President-elect Kamala Harris into a garage at the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 6, just yards away from where a pipe bomb was planted the night before by an unidentified subject, who has yet to be found by law enforcement.
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