Jim Banks announced that he would lead a Republican effort to conduct a January 6 investigation of their own. The effort never amounted to much. Banks did, however, send letters requesting documents to a handful of federal agencies, falsely representing in his signature block that he was the “Ranking Member” of the Select Committee. This was, of course, false. I knew that Banks was desperate for attention, but I was shocked that he would claim to be the ranking member of a committee to which he had not even been appointed.
