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 Should Congress investigate Jan 6th? Sure why not; it's not like we are still dealing with a pandemic. Anyway, while I'm sure people would like to know as much as possible about the whys and hows, the American Intelligence Community (FBI, CIA, etc.), whose main job includes getting information, seems to be having problems holding up their end: Even if the FBI didn't do anything, the fact that they can't answer is very telling. And by "is very telling," I mean, "fuels theories that our intelligence community is so out of control they have operatives doing things that the bosses have no clue about." I mean, learning that the FBI might have coaxed Trump supporters into doing something dumb and illegal would hurt their credibility (HA!), so why commit to an answer? 

In 2018 , the US Congress approved $639 billion in military spending. On January 9, 2019 , Forbes ran a story titled: " Holding U.S. Treasurys? Beware: Uncle Sam Can't Account for $21 Trillion " which involved the Departments of Defense and Housing and Urban Development. In 2019 , the US Congress approved $686.1 billion for the Department of Defense.  On January 23, 2020 , Yahoo posted a story from the Financial Times titled, " The Pentagon's $35 Trillion Accounting Black Hole ," which described the situation as a " persistent lack of internal financial controls at the Pentagon ."  In 2020 , the US Congress approved $714 billion for defense spending.  On May 19, 2021 , NPR published a story titled, " The Pentagon Has Never Passed An Audit. Some Senators Want to Change That ," which reminds us the the Pentagon's "first-ever independent financial audit" was in 2017 and that "the department has never detailed its asset