The report found the Capitol Police command system broke down during the riot. One officer said a lieutenant asked via radio, 'does anybody have a plan?'
WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police leaders learned that Trump supporters were discussing ways to infiltrate tunnels around the complex and target Democratic members of Congress on Jan. 6 but failed to act on the threats, according to a new Senate report summing up what it says werethat contributed to one of the worst incidents of domestic terrorism in U.S. history.
Another officer told Senate investigators: "We were ill prepared. We were NOT informed with intelligence. We were betrayed." Top officials from the FBI and DHS testified in public hearings this year that they were aware of threats on social media from people who talked about perpetrating violence on Jan. 6 to stop what they viewed as the certification of a fraudulent election, but they said they did not deem the threats credible enough to describe them as intelligence.
On Jan. 26, she told lawmakers, "We knew that there was a strong potential for violence and that Congress was the target." But on Feb. 25, she disputed that there had been any "specific, credible threat that thousands of protestors would descend on the Capitol with the intent to disrupt the Electoral College vote certification," the report said.
Investigators also criticized the Capitol Police response, noting a previously reported finding that rank-and-file officers were not provided with basic protective equipment or periodic training in basic civil disturbance tactics.
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