9. June 2021

This article has been indexed from Lawfare

Protestors on the steps of the Capitol. (Brett Davis, https://flic.kr/p/2kpXH7i; CC BY-NC 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)

Five months after opening an investigation into the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, two Senate committees have released a report outlining their factual findings and a series of policy recommendations aimed at correcting the failures that left federal agencies and congressional security officials woefully unprepared for an attack on a joint session of Congress. The report—produced by the Rules and Administration Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee—offers the most detailed account yet of the historic breach. 

Read the original article: What’s in the Senate’s Jan. 6 Report?