Independent commission to investigate Capitol riots
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Congress will establish an "outside, independent" commission to investigate the 6 January attack on the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump. In a letter to lawmakers, she said the commission would be modelled on the inquiry into the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon. "We must get to the truth of how this happened," she said. But Democrats and some Republicans have backed an independent probe into the riots, which left five people dead. 'They thought they were going to die' Ms Pelosi said that US Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré had, over the past few weeks, been assessing the security needs of the Capitol in light of the attack. "It is clear from his findings and from the impeachment trial that we must get to the truth of how this happened," she said. The commission, she said, "would investigate and report on the facts and causes" of the attack; "the interference with
