'The intelligence was there': Law enforcement warnings abounded in the runup to Jan. 6
Source: Politico
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'The intelligence was there': Law enforcement warnings abounded in the runup to Jan. 6
Newly available documents mirror a flood of public red flags about the gathering danger posed by the outer fringes of the Trump movement.
By BETSY WOODRUFF SWAN
10/07/2021 07:17 AM EDT
On Dec. 24, a private intelligence company that works with law enforcement issued a grave warning: Users of a pro-Trump internet forum were talking about turning violent on Jan. 6. ... [A] supposedly violent insurrection by [Trumps] supporters has always been the plan, read a briefing by that company, SITE Intelligence Group. SITE sent this bulletin and others to its numerous subscribers, including U.S. federal law enforcement.
That briefing is among a host of previously unreported documents that circulated among law enforcement officials in the weeks before Jan. 6 laying out, some with jarring specificity, the threats that culminated in the attack on the Capitol. They showed just how much of a danger far-right extremists posed to federal buildings and lawmakers. And they bolster the argument that Jan. 6 was not an intelligence failure.
A potpourri of communities overtly strategized to storm the Capitol building and arrest if not outright kill public officials and carry out a coup, said Rita Katz, the founder and executive director of SITE, which supplied many of the most detailed and specific warnings ahead of Jan. 6. ... She said Jan. 6 represented the most profound failure to act she has ever seen in decades of sharing intelligence with the U.S. government. ... Law enforcement officials were alerting their superiors and other agencies to the threats SITE had identifiedmany of which ended up manifesting that day, just as they were written, she said. These warnings were distributed by the FBI and other agencies well before January 6.
The new documents come from a variety of sources in addition to SITE, including an industry group that tracks threats to rail transportation, the New York City Police Department, a state-government intelligence-sharing hub and the FBI itself. SITE shared its briefings with POLITICO. Property of the People, a transparency watchdog group focused on national security, obtained the other documents through open-records requests.
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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/10/07/law-enforcement-warnings-january-6-515531
Hat tip, Joe.My.God.
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tanyev
(42,552 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)The Capitol Police were willing. Some died because of their sense of duty.
The National Guards were willing. tRump's toady blocked them, according to plan. (tRump fired Espers fired Nov 9 and Chris Miller installed as acting SecDef and then he set up roadblocks Jan 4th or 5th, in writing over his signature.)
tanyev
(42,552 posts)The will to prevent an insurrection was not present in much of the topmost leadership because they were the ones who wanted the insurrection.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)... with directing law enforcement to act. When we ask, "What went wrong?" we know where NOT to go for an answer. Intelligence reports go to administrators. Who are they? The reports go to law enforcement administrators. Why weren't the reports read? Why weren't the reports valued? Why weren't the reports used to protect the public? Where in the CHAIN OF COMMAND was the intellligence devalued, ignored, or discarded?
lark
(23,097 posts)They knew what they were doing and who they were doing it with and the whole government was in on the attempted right wing insurrection.
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justgamma
(3,665 posts)Anyone who has heard 5 minutes of TFG rallies knew that this was a violent mob. Everyone on God's green Earth knew it.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)They can and do co-exist. As with the January 6 episode, it's a great example of how the two are sometimes mutually exclusive. Many of us predicted or could have predicted that Trump's ONLY change was linear, and it was moving toward a total dictatorship. That could be surmised in 2016. And it was.
And yet the "official knowledge" was that of naivete and innocence. The press bothered themselves with other matters. Astoundingly, the Democratic Party leadership MUST have known, but stood by. We hear over and over what a small town DC is among the chattering class. That news of the impending violence at the Capitol MUST have reached Democrats through any number of channels. And it must have reached the DOJ and DHS. Come on. DC society isn't known for keeping secrets. Instead, the Dems tried to sleepwalk through the whole affair until things got real.
Hotler
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IbogaProject
(2,811 posts)The information was there, but there was nothing 'intellegent' about the previous administration.
ffr
(22,669 posts)If that's the entire coup mob and the FG's family, so be it. Detain them. Send them to Guantanamo Bay. Whatever! Could you imagine TFG and TFG Jr being waterboarded? Make them cry.
spooky3
(34,444 posts)Wednesdays
(17,362 posts)SouthBayDem
(32,020 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)The Republicans MADE it happen, and they blocked responses. Lock them up.
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