Who told federal law enforcement to stand down....and why did the J6 committee to do nothing to investigate one of their purview tasks of the committee?
Michael Isikoff......NO friend to the right.....is asking -
Sounds to me they are preparing the nothing burger stink to be blamed on something else.
December 23, 2022, 7:02 PM
WASHINGTON — While detailing multiple warnings of violence collected by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials about protests planned for Jan. 6, the House select committee’s report largely avoids the issue of how federal agencies handled the information or why they failed to share the full extent of the threats with U.S. Capitol Police officers tasked with protecting Congress from the violent mob that stormed the Capitol building.
The select committee’s mission, as defined in its authorizing resolution, was in part to investigate “the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies” to the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Donald Trump at a rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
But the entire issue is relegated to a brief appendix — with 18 pages of text and 11 pages of footnotes — in an 845-page report that largely focuses on the conduct of Donald Trump and his allies. In that section, the panel even botched the name of the FBI, calling it “the Federal Bureau of Intelligence” instead of by its actual name, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“I have the same questions today that I had before the investigation began,” Jim Pasco, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, whose members include Capitol Police officers, told Yahoo News. “Why didn’t [federal law enforcement agencies] take more actions to make sure the force on the Hill was adequately equipped and briefed on the violence that was being talked about?”
Jim Pasco, senior adviser to the National Fraternal Order of Police president, listens to President Donald Trump at a White House meeting, March 28, 2017. (Evan Vucci/AP)
While praising the committee for its account of the circumstances surrounding the attack on the Capitol, John Cohen, who served as chief of intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security during the first year of the Biden administration, said the panel left important “unanswered questions” on the table.
“Why wasn’t the intelligence warning of the threat that day shared in a more effective and organized manner?” Cohen said. “Why didn’t the intelligence gathered result in a more energized operational response by security officials? Why wasn’t there a more robust security presence put in place to protect the certification event, the vice president and members of Congress — security akin to that provided during the State of the Union?”
According to the report released Thursday, “Federal and local law enforcement authorities were in possession of multiple streams of intelligence predicting violence directed at the Capitol prior to January 6th. Although some of that intelligence was fragmentary, it should have been sufficient to warrant far more vigorous preparations for the security of the joint session. The failure to sufficiently share and act upon that intelligence jeopardized the lives of the police officers defending the Capitol and everyone in it.”
But the report says little about why that failure took place, nor does it hold anyone accountable, instead blaming it on the “unprecedented” actions of Trump in acting as a “catalyst” for the fury of the mob.
Michael Isikoff......NO friend to the right.....is asking -
Sounds to me they are preparing the nothing burger stink to be blamed on something else.
Jan. 6 report sidesteps federal intelligence failures before deadly Capitol riot
Michael IsikoffDecember 23, 2022, 7:02 PM
WASHINGTON — While detailing multiple warnings of violence collected by U.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials about protests planned for Jan. 6, the House select committee’s report largely avoids the issue of how federal agencies handled the information or why they failed to share the full extent of the threats with U.S. Capitol Police officers tasked with protecting Congress from the violent mob that stormed the Capitol building.
The select committee’s mission, as defined in its authorizing resolution, was in part to investigate “the preparedness and response of the United States Capitol Police and other Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies” to the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Donald Trump at a rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
But the entire issue is relegated to a brief appendix — with 18 pages of text and 11 pages of footnotes — in an 845-page report that largely focuses on the conduct of Donald Trump and his allies. In that section, the panel even botched the name of the FBI, calling it “the Federal Bureau of Intelligence” instead of by its actual name, the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“I have the same questions today that I had before the investigation began,” Jim Pasco, executive director of the national Fraternal Order of Police, whose members include Capitol Police officers, told Yahoo News. “Why didn’t [federal law enforcement agencies] take more actions to make sure the force on the Hill was adequately equipped and briefed on the violence that was being talked about?”
Jim Pasco, senior adviser to the National Fraternal Order of Police president, listens to President Donald Trump at a White House meeting, March 28, 2017. (Evan Vucci/AP)
While praising the committee for its account of the circumstances surrounding the attack on the Capitol, John Cohen, who served as chief of intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security during the first year of the Biden administration, said the panel left important “unanswered questions” on the table.
“Why wasn’t the intelligence warning of the threat that day shared in a more effective and organized manner?” Cohen said. “Why didn’t the intelligence gathered result in a more energized operational response by security officials? Why wasn’t there a more robust security presence put in place to protect the certification event, the vice president and members of Congress — security akin to that provided during the State of the Union?”
According to the report released Thursday, “Federal and local law enforcement authorities were in possession of multiple streams of intelligence predicting violence directed at the Capitol prior to January 6th. Although some of that intelligence was fragmentary, it should have been sufficient to warrant far more vigorous preparations for the security of the joint session. The failure to sufficiently share and act upon that intelligence jeopardized the lives of the police officers defending the Capitol and everyone in it.”
But the report says little about why that failure took place, nor does it hold anyone accountable, instead blaming it on the “unprecedented” actions of Trump in acting as a “catalyst” for the fury of the mob.
