Read more about National Guard secures DC for inauguration as feds eye police role in riot on Business Standard. Dozens of people on a terrorist watch list were found to have been in Washington on Jan. 6 for pro-Trump events that ultimately devolved into the assault on the Capitol
Congress members suggest colleagues were part of Capitol riot pre-planning
Members of Congress have raised the spectre of a pre-planned inside job leading up to the Capitol riot on January 6.
Democratic Representative Mikie Sherrill said she saw members of Congress showing groups through the Capitol on January 5. A reconnaissance for the next day, she said.
She called on Capitol Police and the Congress s sergeants-at-arms to investigate the suspicious behaviour .
The man seen wheeling a Confederate battle flag during the Capitol violence has been identified as Kevin Seefried.(Getty) Many of the Members who signed this letter, including those of us who have served in the military and are trained to recognise suspicious activity, as well as various members of our staff, witnessed an extremely high number of outside groups in the complex on Tuesday, January 5, she said.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that if members of Congress were found to have been accomplices to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, they should be prosecuted.
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Any members of the U.S. Congress who helped a crowd of President Donald Trump's supporters storm the Capitol should face criminal prosecution, House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday.