The Justice Department is quietly correcting the record about where Vice President Kamala Harris was during the Jan. 6 siege of Congress.
The whereabouts of Harris, who was still a U.S. senator at the time, remain a mystery, but the government recently acknowledged in court that prior assertions that she was present when pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol complex were untrue.
“The government incorrectly stated that Vice President-Elect Harris was present in the U.S. Capitol at the time of the attack,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing in one Jan. 6 case this month. “In fact, Vice President-Elect Harris was not present at that particular time, though she was present earlier in the day and was present later that day.”
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After Politico reported how the Justice Department was beginning to acknowledge its mistake, one of its reporters noted this week that prosecutors are filing new indictments removing references to Harris being in the building during the riot.
While it has long been reported that Harris was in the Capitol earlier in the day to receive an intelligence briefing, and returned after the riot to cast a vote to certify hers and President Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory, the question of where she was during the riot remains unknown to the public. A Washington Post report on Jan. 14 said Harris “had received an intelligence briefing in the morning and had not returned to the Senate before rioters broke in. She was kept away from the Capitol until the facility was secured.”
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A source told Politico that Harris already had plans to leave the building after the Senate Intelligence Committee briefing, and her associates stressed that she tends to keep her location under wraps for safety reasons.
Harris and the vice president at the time, Mike Pence, were the two Secret Service protectees in the building that day, and court filings in cases against alleged Capitol rioters have mentioned illegal entry into a “restricted” area where someone under Secret Service protection was visiting. Pence was present to preside over the certification and was rushed to safety when rioters stormed the Capitol.
