Former DHS secretaries tell Senate to ‘put politics aside’ and support January 6 commission

The assertion, launched by former Homeland Safety Secretaries Michael Chertoff, Tom Ridge, Janet Napolitano and Jeh Johnson, went on to say that “we should perceive how the violent rebel on the Capitol got here collectively to make sure the peaceable switch of energy in our nation is rarely so threatened once more.”

The ten-member bipartisan fee proposed by Home lawmakers earlier this month could be modeled after the panel that investigated the September 11 terrorist assaults. These assaults spurred the creation of the Division of Homeland Safety in an effort to raised coordinate federal, state and native entities in opposition to home and international threats to the US. Ridge, the primary Homeland Safety secretary, was amongst these known as to testify earlier than the 9/11 fee.