{"id":8950,"date":"2021-01-15T17:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3117978\/department-justice-internal-watchdog-opens"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:12:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:12:42","slug":"department-of-justice-internal-watchdog-opens-investigation-into-riots-at-us-capitol-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/15\/department-of-justice-internal-watchdog-opens-investigation-into-riots-at-us-capitol-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Justice internal watchdog opens investigation into riots at US Capitol building"},"content":{"rendered":"This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on January 15, 2021.\r\rThe Department of Justice announced on Friday it has initiated an internal review of its response to the January 6 incursion on the US Capitol building, as the federal government takes a hard look at its failure to prevent a deadly riot that breached the halls of Congress.\r\rDOJ\u2019s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, said that the investigation will\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3117978\/department-justice-internal-watchdog-opens\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Nick Niedzwiadek on politico.com on January 15, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice announced on Friday it has initiated an internal review of its response to th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":749,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/749"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}