The Jan. 6 committee needs to get louder. Much louder.

[Zorro]

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will fail us if it quietly goes about its important work. It needs to be louder. Much louder.

Eleven months ago, a seditious mob used brownshirt-style violence to prevent Congress from certifying the results of a free and fair election. This rip in the fabric of our democracy was patched within hours, but it was not fully mended — and cannot be until there is a full accounting of how and why the attack happened.

The committee, led by Reps. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), is doing the right things. But most of its work is out of sight — which, for most Americans, means out of mind. Many Republicans would like to pretend Jan. 6 was just “one day in January,” as former vice president Mike Pence (whose own life the rioters threatened) shamefully put it. Nothing to see here, folks.

But the insurrection was an unprecedented event in our life as a nation, and we must not allow it to be minimized. Members of Congress hid under seats in the House chamber and put on gas masks as angry mobs tried to smash their way inside. Police officers defending the Capitol were savagely beaten. Our democracy’s citadel was defiled by rioters whose intent was to keep defeated incumbent Donald Trump in power. When I saw this sort of thing happen in other countries, it was called an attempted coup d’etat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/09/jan-6-committee-release-findings-publicly/

[EarlG]

1. Aren't they going to be having a few weeks of public hearings soon?

I would think that when that happens, it will be plenty "loud."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) has offered a sense of what to expect from the investigation as the calendar turns. In short, expect a lot.

“We are making rapid progress,” the committee’s vice chair said at a House Rules Committee hearing on Thursday. “We anticipate next year, we will be conducting multiple weeks of public hearings, setting out for the American people in vivid color exactly what happened, every minute of the day on January 6th, here at the Capitol and at the White House, and what led to that violent attack.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/liz-cheney-jan-6-committee-public-hearings-1265974/