{"id":16020,"date":"2021-05-25T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2021-05-25T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:39:01","slug":"bogus-january-6-commission-poses-a-real-threat-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/25\/bogus-january-6-commission-poses-a-real-threat-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mises Institute, May 25, 2021\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

The Bogus January 6 Commission Poses a Real Threat to Freedom<\/a><\/h2>\n
by <\/span>James Bovard<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\n

\u201cTruth will out\u201d is the most popular fairy tale in Washington.<\/strong> Members of Congress are clashing over whether politicians will appoint an \u201cindependent\u201d commission to reveal the facts behind the January 6 Capitol ruckus. Proponents are portraying the issue as a simple choice between \u201ctruth or Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recent history provides no reason to expect a politically controlled process to expose facts that undermine powerful politicians<\/strong>. Congress has long been worse than useless as a fact-finding agency. \u201cOversight\u201d is a euphemism for stupefying congressional procedures designed to avoid discovering information that might embarrass their allies. A senior House Republican admitted in 2004: \u201cOur party controls the levers of government. We’re not about to go out and look beneath a bunch of rocks to cause heartburn.\u201d Most members of Congress are more likely to grovel before federal agencies than to challenge their power. \u201cHow are you so great and how can we help you?\u201d is the usual response when the FBI director testifies, as Guardian<\/em> columnist Trevor Timm noted in 2016.<\/p>\n

There is no reason to presume that a commission investigating January 6 would not be hogtied official stonewalling. Former Senate Intelligence Committee staff director Andy Johnson observed in 2014: \u201cThe fog of secrecy made a mockery of oversight\u201d of the CIA torture scandal. The Obama administration did not object even when the CIA illegally spied on a congressional committee to thwart the torture investigation. Both Bush and Obama administration officials repeatedly lied during congressional testimony on war on terror policies but faced no consequences. But everything would be different in this investigation, right?<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team want a congressionally appointed commission in lieu of disclosing what actually happened on January 6. Cameras posted in and around the Capitol recorded fourteen hundred hours of film on January 6, but very little of the evidence has been publicly disclosed. Fourteen news organizations have requested that the Justice Department publicly release key videos on the federal court\u2019s electronic dockets but no such luck. Capitol Police chief lawyer Thomas DiBiase warned<\/a> that \u201cproviding unfettered access to hours of extremely sensitive information to defendants who already have shown a desire to interfere with the democratic process will \u2026 [cause that information to be] passed on to those who might wish to attack the Capitol again.\u201d But it is also \u201cinterfering with the democratic process\u201d to withhold evidence of actions which have been endlessly demonized by the president, top congressional leaders, and their media allies.<\/p>\n

Disclosing the video could settle the question of whether most protestors behaved like violent attackers or gaping tourists<\/strong>. Julie Kelly, writing for American Greatness, recently posted a forty-five-second video clip<\/a> of protestors after they entered the Capitol that day. Capitol Police officer Keith Robishaw tells a group of protestors: \u201cWe\u2019re not against \u2026 you need to show us \u2026\u00a0no attacking, no assault, remain calm.\u201d The citizens shown in that clip don\u2019t appear to have been hell-bent on overthrowing the government that day.<\/p>\n

The media is touting the fact that Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, the cochairs of the 9\/11 Commission, have endorsed a commission to\u00a0investigate January 6. But invoking Kean and Hamilton is like relying on the Three Stooges as references for a job application at a pie\u00a0factory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Kean and Hamilton issued a joint statement boasting about the 9\/11 Commission:\u00a0\u201cWe put country above party<\/a> to examine, without bias, the events before, during, and after the attacks\u2026. The January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was one of the darkest days in our history. Americans deserve an objective and accurate account of what happened. As we did in the wake of September 11, it is time to set aside partisan politics and come together as Americans in common pursuit of truth and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 9\/11 Commission \u201cpursued truth and justice\u201d by permitting the White House to edit<\/a> the final version of their report before it was publicly released. Despite its canonization inside the Beltway, that report would not be admissible in a court of law, because it relied on torture for many of its key assertions. The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u2019s Philip Shenon, the author of The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9\/11 Investigation<\/em>, noted<\/a> that \u201cmore than a quarter of the report\u2019s footnotes\u2014441 of some 1,700\u2014referred to detainees who were subjected to the CIA\u2019s \u2018enhanced\u2019 interrogation program.\u201d Shenon reported that commission members \u201cforwarded questions to the CIA, whose interrogators posed them on the panel\u2019s behalf. The commission\u2019s report gave no hint that harsh interrogation methods [including waterboarding] were used in gathering information.\u201d The commission\u2019s report was released months after shocking photos from Abu Ghraib and key Justice Department and Pentagon memos leaked out, exposing the Bush administration\u2019s torture regime. Yet, as Shenon noted, \u201cThe commission demanded that the CIA carry out new rounds of interrogations in 2004 to get answers to its questions.\u201d The 9\/11 Commission became profoundly complicit in the torture at the same time it pretended to objectively judge the Bush record.<\/p>\n

The commission report was released in July 2004 at the same time that Bush was exploiting the 9\/11 attacks<\/a>\u00a0and the Iraq War<\/a> for his reelection campaign. The commission ignored evidence compiled by a joint House-Senate investigation revealing that Saudi government agents bankrolled multiple Saudi hijackers in the US\u00a0prior to the attacks (fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were Saudis). But the Bush administration suppressed those twenty-eight\u00a0pages<\/a> of that congressional report and they were not released until 2016. Bush embraced Saudi leaders while insisting that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was somehow<\/a> to blame for 9\/11. If the 9\/11 Commission had quoted the 2002 FBI memo<\/a> stating that there was \u201cincontrovertible evidence that there is support for these [9\/11 hijacker] terrorists within the Saudi Government,\u201d Bush might have been seriously damaged, but 9\/11 commissioners chose to serve the White House rather than truth. Kean and Hamilton remain venerated by the media, because their kowtowing buttressed public trust in the political system.<\/p>\n

Would an investigation of January 6 be more honest than the investigation of September 11? President Biden and Democratic congressional leaders are vested in the \u201cterrorist attack\/Pearl Harbor\u201d narrative that they established within hours of the fracas. Democrats still refer to the protestors murdering a Capitol Police officer long after the belated revelation that he died of natural causes. The New York Times<\/em> noted that that advocates of a January 6 commission insist it is “an ethical and practical necessity to fully understand the most violent attack<\/a> on Congress in two centuries.” Tell that to the Puerto Rican nationalists who shot up Congress in 1954 or to Congressman Steve Scalise and two other Capitol employees who were shot by a Democratic Party zealot in 2017. If such \u201cfacts\u201d are the baseline for accuracy, then citizens can start scoffing long before a commission issues a final report.<\/p>\n

The biggest illusion behind the push for a January 6 commission is that there is a political constituency in Washington for truth.<\/strong> But that hasn\u2019t been the case for decades. As French essayist Paul Valery warned long ago, \u201cAt every step, politics and freedom of mind exclude each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same way that it took almost fifteen years for some key facts about the 9\/11 attacks to be revealed, it may be months or years until key damning revelations about the Capitol clash are extracted from federal agencies or private individuals and groups. Creating a pseudo-independent commission is more likely to codify a deceptive but politically profitable storyline than to expose facts that undercut powerful Washingtonians or government agencies.<\/p>\n

A fa\u00e7ade of political \u201ctruth\u201d can be more dangerous than no disclosure at all<\/strong>. Biden and congressional Democrats are seeking to turbocharge their push for a new domestic terrorism law to permit widespread federal crackdowns on their opponents. Any rigged commission would likely pour gasoline on a fire that could singe far more American rights and liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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