WASHINGTON, Feb 16 -- United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday announced plans for establishing an independent "9/11-type commission" to investigate the deadly Jan 6 Capitol riot, two days after former President Donald Trump was acquitted in his second impeachment trial by the evenly split Senate.
"To protect our security, our next step will be to establish an outside, independent 9/11-type Commission to investigate and report on the facts and causes relating to Jan 6, 2021, domestic terrorist attack upon the United States Capitol Complex ... and relating to the interference with the peaceful transfer of power," Pelosi wrote in a letter to House Democrats, reported Xinhua news agency.
"For the past few weeks, General Honore has been assessing our security needs by reviewing what happened on Jan 6 and how we must ensure that it does not happen again," Pelosi wrote, referring to retired Leftenan General Russel Honore who she tapped to lead a review of Capitol's "security infrastructure" following the riot last month.
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