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The choice is yours, to download an 845 page PDF file, the “FINAL REPORT of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol” or buy one of several editions at a bookstore, order it from a library or buy if from the U.S. government. It was published Dec. 22, 2022.

Start at the front, reading the forwards from former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Ms) or Vice-Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wy).

Pelosi’s is titled “The Last Best Hope of Earth,” taken from Abraham Lincoln’s phrase, “nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”

The table of contents is itself revealing. The eight chapter titles start with “The Big Lie,” go through “I Just Want to Find 11,780 Votes” and ‘‘Just Call It Corrupt and Leave the Rest To Me,’’ the latter two statements former President Donald Trump made. Chapter 8 is “Analysis of the Attack.”

There are 11 recommendations made, starting with reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887, to specify that a vice president has no authority or discretion to reject an official electoral slate submitted by the governor of a state.

Under “Accountability,” the committee notes it “has made criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, and both the Department of Justice and other prosecutorial authorities will now make their determinations on whether to prosecute individuals involved in the events resulting in an attack on the United States Congress on January 6, 2021.”

Appendix 2 analyzes how “Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud – the Big Lie” – served as both his foundation for overturning the 2020 presidential election and for “launching a fundraising effort to fund the former president’s other endeavors and to enrich his associates—the Big Rip-off.”

Buy copies at Seaport Books in La Conner or order House Report 117-663 from the U.S. government at

bookstore.gpo.gov.