JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
It has been five years since the insurrection on January 6, 2021.
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Greg Rosen, a former federal prosecutor who led the Justice Department unit that investigated the riot, says it's one of the most filmed crime scenes in American history.
GREG ROSEN: Is certainly the largest federal prosecution in American history. I mean, there's nobody that comes close in terms of the number of defendants and the number of parallel investigations occurring at the same time.
SUMMERS: But when Trump took office a year ago, he began to rewrite the story of the riot.
KELLY: He issued clemency for all the defendants. The DOJ took its public database of cases down. The FBI removed wanted posters for January 6 fugitives who have eluded arrest.
SUMMERS: To preserve what happened, for the last five years, NPR's investigations team has systematically collected court filings, charging documents, arrest affidavits, video evidence, testimony and more from that day.
KELLY: You can find it all at npr.org/j6archive, and you can explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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