Perspective: A two-year probe of law enforcement actions related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack found missed opportunities and weak risk-mitigation procedures.
has revealed repeated lapses in the sharing of information between and sometimes within 10 federal agencies that dealt with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by people who tried to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election loss. The findings echo previous reportingissued last week. It said all the agencies “identified potential threats of violence” and communicated that to law enforcement partners, but not always as widely as needed.
One the day of the riot, the FBI’s Washington Field Office “was tracking 18 domestic terrorism subjects as potential travelers to the D.C. area,” according to the GAO. But because “FBI personnel did not follow policies for processing some tips,” they did not develop into “reports that could have been shared with partners.” The San Antonio Field Office obtained 45 emails related to counterterrorism threats from Parler, a right-wing social media platform, from Nov. 20, 2020, through Jan.
The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis developed threat information about someone “with enough ammo to ‘win a small war’ who planned to attend January 6 events while armed,” GAO said. That intelligence was shared with some agencies, but not the Capitol Police, which is the primary agency guarding the Capitol.
What the Capitol Police would have done with that information, however, is questionable. GAO found police officials did not share “relevant threat information … agency-wide, resulting in some officers not having complete information.” A GAO survey said 57 percent of low-ranking officers indicated the guidance they received “was slightly or not at all clear.
Two of the previous GAO “Capitol Attack” reports were not released publicly due to information sensitive to law enforcement. Others found that DHS failed
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