The former head of the Capitol Police claimed he had not seen intelligence that the FBI shared with his department on the violent threat that Trump supporters posed until six weeks after the Jan. 6 attack.
The information was not passed to leadership, and there was no explanation for why it was not shared with authorities, prompting questions on how communication was halted between law enforcement agencies and within Capitol Police, former Capital Police Chief Steven Sund said.
“I actually just in the last 24 hours was informed by the department that they actually had received that report,” Sund testified before a joint Senate hearing on the preparation and response to the attack. “It was received by … the Joint Terrorism Task Force, which is a task force with the FBI. They received it the evening of the 5th, reviewed it, and then forwarded over to an official at the intelligence division over at U.S. Capitol Police headquarters.”
Supporting security officials in the House and the Senate were also not made aware of the FBI report, he added. People planning to attend a rally near the White House earlier that day were preemptively calling others to attack the Capitol as lawmakers attempted to certify the election results, the report stated.
“Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal,” one person wrote in an online chat room, as detailed in a report on the FBI document.
