Update: A new, unvarnished video view of the Capitol-building attack from The New Times this afternoon — main written detail:

The work of understanding Jan. 6 has been hard enough without this barrage of disinformation and, hoping to get to the bottom of the riot,
The Times’s Visual Investigations team spent several months reviewing thousands of videos, many filmed by the rioters themselves and since deleted from social media.
We filed motions to unseal police body-camera footage, scoured law enforcement radio communications, and synchronized and mapped the visual evidence.

What we have come up with is a 40-minute panoramic take on Jan. 6, the most complete visual depiction of the Capitol riot to date.
In putting it together, we gained critical insights into the character and motivation of rioters by experiencing the events of the day often through their own words and video recordings.
We found evidence of members of extremist groups inciting others to riot and assault police officers.
And we learned how Donald J. Trump’s own words resonated with the mob in real time as they staged the attack.

View the 40-minute clip at the link (h/t to Digby, who also has the video).
Amazingly scary.

Another step closer to maybe, possibly, perhaps getting to the truth of how the Jan. 6 insurrection/riot at the US Capitol came about and what actually happened that day. And as Liz Cheney ominously remarked, it might be ‘…our only remaining option.’

We have a House Select Committee on 1/6/21:

JUST IN: The House has approved the formation of a new select committee that will investigate the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, in a vote falling mostly along party lines https://t.co/3WNgUQSv6x

— CNN (@CNN) June 30, 2021

Despite being the next-best way to get to the very-bottom of what exactly happened that day, a panel mainly selected by Pelosi is a good foundation to that end, and too, will lead most-likely to some headline-grabbing investigative testimony. A stronger avenue would have been an independent commission to investigate the event, but that proposal was shot-down by Republicans last month.
Even so, still a hard road because … Republicans. Story via The Washington Post this afternoon:

The House voted Wednesday to form a select committee tasked with investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol with nearly all Republicans opposing the legislation — a sign of the political challenges that face Democrats as they attempt to probe why thousands of President Donald Trump’s supporters swarmed the building and tried to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

The 220-to-190 nearly party-line vote stands in contrast to a vote in May, when 35 House Republicans joined Democrats to back the creation of an independent commission to examine the root causes of the attack.
But while that group of House Republicans was willing to embrace an outside panel of experts evenly weighted between GOP and Democratic appointees, most were wary of a select committee that would be firmly in the control of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked participants.
…
The vote Wednesday was the latest example of how Republicans have rallied against scrutinizing an attack they once strongly condemned.
Any investigation into the Jan. 6 attack would probably focus on the role played by Trump in inspiring the crowd that came to Washington that day in support of his falsehoods about the election being stolen.

The former president remains popular with Republican voters, and GOP leaders have been wary of doing anything that could draw his ire as they rely on him to motivate the party’s base of voters ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
Several House Republicans skipped Wednesday’s vote to join Trump on his visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.

Due to frightful lying:

Pelosi: "Many across the aisle refuse to admit the truth. They refuse to admit the truth when they voted against certifying the president … They refuse to admit the truth when they call that day a normal tourist visit. And today … they will again refuse to admit this truth."

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 30, 2021

And this from BuzzFeed News, also this afternoon:

Several Capitol Police officers who fought the pro-Trump mob that attacked the Capitol were seated in the House gallery on Wednesday, including Harry Dunn, who has since spoken out about some of the racist abuse he experienced during the mob attack.

Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat, told BuzzFeed News that she’s planning to work on getting Capitol Police officers who struggled with mental health issues after Jan. 6 access to programs at Walter Reed, which she said has a “first-rate program” for the relevant care.
Because the officers aren’t military, they normally would not be able to receive services there.
Speier said she’d also engaged Cheney on the issue, which a spokesperson for Cheney confirmed.

During the vote, Cheney visited the gallery, as did a group of Democratic lawmakers — Reps. Dean Phillips, Josh Gottheimer, Bill Pascrell, and Eric Swalwell — where the mother of the late Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Police officer who died the day after engaging with rioters at the insurrection — was also seated.

“To them, I apologize they have to hear this debate,” Rep. Jim McGovern said, pointing to the gallery where the officers were seated.

Liz Cheney, along with Adam Kinzinger, were the only two Republicans today who voted for the select committee — Cheney was still outspoken about the GQPers stance on the insurrection/riot last January. In a statement before the vote, Cheney callled the incident ‘“the most serious attack”‘ on the Capitol since the British set DC a-fire in 1814 — per CNN: ‘“Our nation, and the families of the brave law enforcement officers who were injured defending us or died following the attack, deserve answers … I believe this select committee is our only remaining option … We must ensure that what happened on January 6, 2021 never happens again.”‘

A nasty, but truthful example of Republicans being turn-about assholes: Also in the House spectator gallery today was D.C. Metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack while unconscious as the result of a stun gun used on him during the riot, walked out of a meeting last week with Kevin McCarthy and proclaimed, ‘“I need a drink.”‘

Yes, that bad …

Long ago, and far, far away:

“I did not…”

(Image out front by illustrator and portrait painter, Tim O’Brien, and can be found here).