Bennie Thompson

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This problem is not new, but the urgency is greater than ever in light of the increasing number of ransomware attacks.

It is important that we continue to hold CISA and the Department accountable when it comes to these troubling issues.

We want to know who financed it. We want to know who helped organize it.

We want to know who facilitated this. If individuals came to a peaceful rally on the 6th, why did they bring bear spray, why did they bring all those other weapons with them?

What would you task this committee in its body of work, what would you like to see us do?

Truth, Ali, will be the disinfectant for this great country of ours.

And while institutions and do it and while Joe Biden is the legitimately elected President of the United States, a peaceful transfer of power didn’t happen this year. A violent mob was pointed toward the Capitol and told to win a trial by…

As the subcommittee has learned through its recent hearings, many of the root causes of migration from Central America are interrelated.

Well, let me say nothing is off limits. We`ll follow the facts. On the meetings we`ve had with the members of this committee, they have all said wherever the facts and I investigation lead us, that`s where we`ll go. So nothing sacred.

When it comes to the security of the Capitol and our democracy, nothing will be off limits. We will do what is necessary to understand what happened, why and how. And we will make recommendations to help ensure it never happens again.

I think a majority of Americans are really looking forward to that as well.

They're not putting the country before the party, and that's what bothers me the most because I, as a former soldier, I know what that inherits, that oath, and I'm still willing to do that.

We cannot allow ourselves to be undone by liars and cheaters.

As Chairman of this Committee, I will not give that lie any fertile ground.

Let's be clear. The rioters who tried to rob us of our democracy were propelled here by a lie.

Some people are trying to deny what happened, to whitewash it, to turn the insurrectionists into martyrs.

I thank God our democracy and our Republic withstood this assault, but that man's warning reminds us that this threat hasn't gone away.

While our institution's endured and while Joe Biden is the legitimately elected President of the United States, a peaceful transfer of power didn't happen this year.

It's important to think about history as this Committee starts its work.

If not for the heroism of the United States Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department, many more lives might have been lost.

We know that men and women who stormed the Capitol wanted to derail the peaceful transfer of power in this country.

There is no place for politics or partisanship in this investigation.

Democracy is bigger than any one person and any one party.

In closing, we can never again allow our democracy to be put in peril as it was on January 6th.