The real (aka Republican) J-6 report

People have been hoodwinked into thinking that the televised House Select Committee faux hearings are the only investigation into the Jan. 6 mayhem on Capitol Hill. That notion should be dismissed ASAP. According to this report, "The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration conducted a bipartisan investigation in the months after the attack. On June 8, 2021, the committees released their findings in a joint staff report (hereinafter, Senate Report)."

That investigation has legitimacy because its findings weren't predetermined and professionally produced by Hollywood. Predictably, the Pelosi-picked panel put important things off-limits, starting with interviewing Speaker Pelosi and the then-House Sargeant-At-Arms.

Pelosi's approved minions were told that Pelosi and then-House Seargent-At-Arms Paul Irving wouldn't be interviewed. (That's why Pelosi vetoed the selections of Jim Jordan and Jim Banks to the Select Committee. They intended to ask what roll Pelosi and Irving played in pre-Jan. 6 preparations.) The House Republicans' report explains why Pelosi put them off-limits:

Similarly, then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving—who served on the Capitol Police Board by virtue of his position—succumbed to political pressures from the Office of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrat leadership leading up to January 6, 2021. He coordinated closely with the Speaker and her staff and left Republicans out of important discussions related to security. As a critical member of the Capitol Police Board, the House Sergeant at Arms had an obligation to all Members, staff, and USCP officers to keep them safe by consulting stakeholders without partisan preference.

FYI- USCP is the U.S. Capitol Police. Also, the IICD is the Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division, which is part of the USCP. In this GMA interview, Rep. Jim Jordan, (R-OH), tried explaining why the Pelosi Select Committee was a sham:

Report Findings

One IICD analyst testified to investigators: “That unit was disbanded by her almost on day one. We, at the time of January 6, we were not doing proactive searches of social media like we had been before. We were strictly reactive and responding to requests for information." This is also substantiated by USCP’s own internal after-action report that was drafted in June of 2021.

That's a big deal. Why would you change the IICD right before a major security event on Capitol Hill? That's just plain stupid. Then there's this:

Similarly, then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving—who served on the Capitol Police Board by virtue of his position—succumbed to political pressures from the Office of Speaker Pelosi and House Democrat leadership leading up to January 6, 2021. He coordinated closely with the Speaker and her staff and left Republicans out of important discussions related to security. As a critical member of the Capitol Police Board, the House Sergeant at Arms had an obligation to all Members, staff, and USCP officers to keep them safe by consulting stakeholders without partisan preference.

But rather than coordinate in a meaningful way, Irving only provided information to Republicans after receiving instruction from the Speaker’s office. In one case, Irving even asked a senior Democratic staffer to "act surprised" when he sent key information about plans for the Joint Session on January 6, 2021 to him and his Republican counterpart. The senior Democratic staffer replied: "I’m startled!"

To make matters worse, systemic issues have crippled the security apparatus for years. USCP line officers were under-trained and ill-equipped to protect the Capitol complex. One officer testified to investigators that he went into the fight on January 6, 2021 with nothing but his USCP-issued baseball cap. Even if every USCP officer had been at work that day, their numbers would still have been insufficient to hold off the rioters due to a lack of training and equipment. The USCP was set up to fail, and there have been scant signs of progress toward addressing these weaknesses.

That's Pelosi's fault. Period. The House Seargent-At-Arms reports directly to her. This isn't the conclusion of examining a complex organizational chart. Irving reported directly to her. Further, why weren't USCP equipped properly?

In fact, rather than address these systemic issues, USCP leadership ramped up its intelligence gathering work as it relates to private citizens who meet with Members of Congress and Senators, including extensive research on private residences and other meeting venues. This investigation found that the information collected against private citizens exercising their constitutional rights with respect to meeting Members of Congress is not in fact used for security purposes in some cases. This issue, and others require additional scrutiny by the relevant committees of Congress.

Apparently, there's lots of things happening. The bad news is that it didn't have much to do with the January 6 preparations.