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Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz hinted last week it is possible that FBI undercover agents and informants were also in the crowd, though he declined to be more specific until he finishes his investigation.
Government Accountability Office concludes intelligence failures
In February this year, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress concluded that the Capitol Police, the FBI, and eight other federal agencies had gatheredintelligence that certain extremists were planning to commit violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6 but that they failed to adapt security protocols and get threat assessments to key decision-makers.
"Some agencies did not fully process information or share it, preventing critical information from reaching key federal entities responsible for securing the National Capital Region against threats," the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in the February report.
GAO reserved its harshest criticism for the Capitol Police, which is the lead agency in charge of security at the Capitol complex, according to Just the News’ previous reporting. “Capitol Police did not share threat products with its frontline officers," the watchdog concluded, imploring Congress to press those agencies to change failed practices and procedures to avoid a repeat tragedy.
Secret Service missteps put Kamala Harris within yards of a bomb
In July, Just the News reported on two missteps by the Secret Service surrounding Jan. 6: the deletion of Jan. 6-related text messages and the Secret Service’s decision to bring Vice President-elect Kamala Harris within yards of where a pipe bomb was found.
In a letter to two congressional committees last year, the Department of Homeland Security inspector general said that the U.S. Secret Service had informed his office that “many… text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program.”
Most importantly, “The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol,” the letter continued. The Secret Service denied that there was any “malicious" intent behind the deletion, but that it was part of a scheduled “technology system change.”
The same month, Just the News reported that security footage from the Capitol complex shows that the Secret Service brought Vice President-elect Kamala Harris into a garage at the Democratic National Committee on Jan. 6, just yards away from where a pipe bomb was planted the night before by an unidentified subject, who has yet to be found by law enforcement.
Capitol door left unlocked, unguarded
This summer, Just the News obtained footage showing a door on the west side of the U.S. Capitol was left open and unguarded, allowing more than 300 protesters to enter the building during the height of the riot.
The footage shows that the door was unlocked after Capitol Police directed a small number of intruders already in the building towards an emergency door, marked by a sign.After a few of the intruders exit the doors, they remain unlocked, permitting hundreds of protestors to enter the building unchecked with no police presence at the entryway.
After Capitol Police arrived at the doors, they did not block the entryway and rioters continued to flow unimpeded into the building, even as police elsewhere attempted to hold out the mass of protesters.
According to Just the News’ reporting this summer, current and former Capitol Police officers as well as congressional aides briefed on security said the video footage shows a powerful lesson to be learned, since it did not involve a forced breach but rather a fateful decision to move a few intruders through the emergency doors.
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