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The attorney general, Merrick Garland, has said federal authorities have now arrested more than 480 people in connection with the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January.
Garland called the assault by supporters of Donald Trump seeking to overturn his election defeat by Joe Biden a “large and heinous attack”.
Trump was impeached for a second time, for inciting an insurrection, but was acquitted when insufficient Republican senators could be convinced to vote for his guilt.
Republicans then used the filibuster, the means by which the minority in the Senate can block the will of the majority, to thwart legislation to establish an independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the attack.
“We have an enormous task ahead,” Garland said at the Department of Justice in Washington, during an address on policy regarding domestic terrorism.
This, he said, meant the US had “to move forward as a country, to punish the perpetrators, to do everything possible to prevent similar attacks, and to do so in a manner that affirms the values on which our justice system is founded and upon which our democracy depends.
“The resolve and dedication with which the justice department has approached the investigation of the 6 January attack reflects the seriousness with which we take this assault on a mainstay of our democratic system, the peaceful transfer of power.
“Over the 160 days since the attack, we have arrested over 480 individuals and brought hundreds and hundreds of charges against those who attacked law enforcement officers, obstructed justice and used deadly and dangerous weapons to those ends.
“That would have not been possible without the dedication of our career prosecutors and agents, as well as a critical cooperation of ordinary Americans who, large and small, have shown that they are our best partners in keeping America safe. Within the very first week following the attack, members of the public took it upon themselves to submit over 100,000 pieces of digital media to the FBI.”
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