A Senate report faulted security officials as well as federal agencies for intelligence and planning failures leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
“This report is not a comprehensive account of everything that happened in the lead up to and during the attack,” Sen. Gary Peters , the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told reporters. He and other Democrats have called for an independent commission to conduct a fuller investigation.
One key recommendation is to empower the Capitol Police chief to unilaterally request assistance from the National Guard in an emergency, instead of having to get approval from the Capitol Police Board, a process the report faulted as confusing and cumbersome. Congress would have to pass legislation to make that change. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Roy Blunt told reporters they would sponsor a bill to do so.
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