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Opinion by Ankush Khardori
06/09/2022 04:30 AM EDT
Ankush Khardori, an attorney and former federal prosecutor, is a Politico Magazine contributing editor.
On Thursday night, in a primetime hearing, the House Jan. 6 select committee will begin formally unveiling its findings from its work over the past year investigating the siege of the U.S. Capitol. This may be the most intensive investigation in the history of Congress, with potentially far-reaching historical and political implications. But the real impact of the committee’s work will turn first and foremost — even before the understandable questions about whether it can break through in our fractured media environment or actually affect public opinion — on what the committee has learned as a factual matter.
Thus far, the committee, which has conducted more than 1,000 witness interviews, has already generated an array of discrete and significant revelations, despite being hampered by many Republicans’ refusal to cooperate. The hearings, however, will provide the public’s first insight into whether the committee has been able to answer, in something approximating an authoritative and comprehensive manner, some of the major questions within its broad investigative purview. Those questions may concern what happened on Jan. 6 itself, the failure of federal law enforcement to adequately safeguard the Capitol that day or, perhaps most importantly, the broader, extra-legal campaign by former...
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