Investigate the Capitol attack? Republicans prefer to back the big lie
by David Smith in Washington from on (#5J1FR)
The vast majority of House Republicans voted against a bipartisan, 9/11-style panel - no surprise from a party still in thrall to Trump
Tuesday, September 11, 2001, dawned temperate and nearly cloudless in the eastern United States." So begins the report of the 9/11 commission, which investigated the terrorist attacks 20 years ago with bipartisan support.
Will there be a similarly limpid introduction to a similarly weighty (567 pages) study of the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol in Washington on 6 January 2021? Not if Republicans can help it.
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