How Security at the Capitol Fell Apart

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7. The FBI never sent out a threat assessment on the 1/6 protest even though they sent out warnings..

...about individuals

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/13/956359496/why-didnt-the-fbi-and-dhs-produce-a-threat-report-ahead-of-the-capitol-insurrect

....But they also said a specific threat assessment from the FBI and DHS in the weeks before might well have persuaded Capitol Police and others to beef up security......

Eddy said if there wasn't an intelligence bulletin ahead of the pro-Trump rally, that was a problem. "If the reality is that ... neither FBI nor DHS did a threat assessment for Jan. 6, that was blinking red. If that's indeed the fact, then that's absolutely a failure of intelligence ... and weird," he said.

Looks like members of the Trump admin held NG back as back up that was not allowed DURING attack.

Don't think the onus belongs on the capital police, looks like 6 of them did some shitty things during the attack but they were left blind to a degree by FBI and DHS that would get them moving to beef up secuirit.

The investigation into this should be a deep and wide