A BIPARTISAN REPORT BY two committees of the United States Senate has highlighted crucial intelligence that was missed or disregarded by government agencies prior to the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
Five people died during a concerted
attempt by thousands of supporters of the then-President Donald Trump to
storm the US Capitol Complex and invalidate the election victory of Joe
Biden. Over 450 participants in the insurrection are now facing charges
for storming the Capitol.
The report (.pdf)
was produced jointly by the Senate Committee on Rules and
Administration and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs. It took the two committees five months to issue their findings,
which are based on thousands of internal documents and closed-door
interviews with senior government officials. Officials interviewed
include the then-acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and General
Mark Milley, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The report details failures in the areas
of intelligence collection and exploitation, security preparations and
emergency response measures both prior to and during the insurrection.
It states that the US Capitol Police was in possession of intelligence
from a pro-Trump website, in which militants were urging participants in
the president’s “March to Save America” rally to “bring guns”. Armed
demonstrators were also urged to surround every exit from the US Capitol
Complex, in order to trap members of Congress and their staff inside
the building.
However, the intelligence gathered from
websites and social media platforms was not utilized, not communicated
to officers, or simply dismissed by the US Capitol Police, according to
the Senate report. Additionally, once the insurrection was underway, the
Department of Defense did not authorize the deployment of the
Washington DC National Guard until a full three hours after it was
requested to do so by the police.
In a statement
issued on Tuesday, the US Capitol Police said it welcomed the joint
Senate report on the January 6 insurrection. It added, however, that “at
no point prior to the 6th [of January did its analysts]
receive actionable intelligence about a large-scale attack” on the US
Capitol Complex. This is likely to be the last Congressional
investigation into the attack on the US Capitol Complex, as Republican
Senators have blocked the creation of an independent 9/11-type
commission to investigate it.
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