.MaddowBlog: When Rep. McCarthy launched a Jan. 6 committee boycott, he thought he was punishing Democrats. Instead, he left his own party in the dark.
, Congress moved to Plan B: The House created a bipartisan, special select committee to investigate the insurrectionist attack. As part of the process, GOP leaders were invited to recommend a slate of House Republicans to serve on the panel, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the final call on whether or not they qualified.for being anti-election radicals.
For example, House GOP leaders haven’t the foggiest idea what’s going on with the investigation. The Washington PostOne by one, Republicans eviscerated the work of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, each one bemoaning the fact that the chief congressional security officials had not been subpoenaed to examine that day’s security lapses.
GOP leaders didn’t know that. They simply assumed that because the congressional security officials hadn’t been subpoenaed, it meant the committee hadn’t interviewed them. In reality, the security officials voluntarily agreed to answer questions.
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