In the three days ahead of Jan. 6, the agency failed to warn officers of the potential for violence
But other Capitol Police intelligence assessments from late December and early January, also obtained by the AP, seemed to contradict those optimistic analyses. Reports written mere days earlier included warnings that as many as tens of thousands of people could come to the nation’s capital onand further cautioned that members of extremist groups, such as the Proud Boys, may be present.
One Capitol Police memo from Jan. 3 said there could be a “significantly dangerous situation for law enforcement and the general public alike,” while an intelligence assessment from Dec. 31, 2020, mentioned individuals were posting on message boards and sharing information about the Capitol’s tunnel system, which is often used by members and their staff.an FBI office in Virginia warned
that extremists were encouraging violence at the Capitol and told their fellow Trump supporters to go D.C. “ready for war.” “As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington, D.C.,”. “An online thread discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight.
Although Capitol Police headquarters received that FBI intelligence report the night before the attack, leadership did not see it, former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund told the Senate during a February hearing.
Reacting to the news that Capitol Police leadership did not see the FBI report, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Gary Peters said to Sund, “That raises a big question. It does not get to operational command? How could that happen?”concluded that Capitol Police suffered from “a lack of consensus about the gravity of the threat posed on Jan.
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