The Senate panel report details how the agencies failed to recognize and warn of the potential for violence as some of Trump’s supporters openly planned the siege in messages and forums online
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday is releasing a new report on the intelligence failures ahead of the insurrection.
Still, Peters said, the reasons for dismissing what he called a “massive” amount of intelligence “defies an easy explanation.” As Trump, a Republican, falsely claimed he had won the 2020 election and tried to overturn his election defeat, telling his supporters to"fight like hell"in a speech in front of the White House that day, thousands of them marched to the Capitol. More than 2,000 rioters overran law enforcement, assaulted police officers, and caused more than $2.7-billion in damage to the Capitol, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report earlier this year.
The lack of sufficient warnings meant that law enforcement were not adequately prepared and there was not a hardened perimeter established around the Capitol, as there is during events like the annual State of the Union address. “his is not a rally and it’s no longer a protest,” read one of the Parler posts sent to the FBI, according to the report. “This is a final stand where we are drawing the red line at Capitol Hill. don’t be surprised if we take the #capital building.”
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