Let the panel do its whole job
McCarthy is only partly right
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U.S. House of Representatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy is only partly right about the mission awaiting the House select committee's probe into the 1/6 insurrection.
McCarthy today said the panel should concern itself only with why the Capitol security was so lacking and "how to prevent" such a riot from recurring.
Wrong, leader McCarthy!
There's also this thing about what the 45th president knew at the time of the riot, what he didn't do to call a halt to it and did he really have that conversation with McCarthy in which he told him that the rioters cared more about the Constitution than McCarthy did.
The terrorists who marched onto Capitol Hill on 1/6 to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election committed an insurrection against the government. House members and senators were doing their constitutional duty in certifying the election.
The House select panel is tasked with finding out all there is to learn about what happened, why it happened and, yes, how to prevent it from recurring.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy needs to stop obstructing the panel from doing its job and adhere to the oath he took to "defend and protect the Constitution," which the insurrectionists sought on 1/6 to destroy.