The January 6th house committee has not spent much time explaining the failures of law enforcement in preventing such a destructive siege – although the committee has presented the evidence that law enforcement did face a massacre.
But sources have told NBC News that, behind the scenes, these failures have not been forgotten, and the Jan. 6th committee plans to host another round of public hearings in September. The hearings are expected to focus more on the intelligence and law enforcement failures. It will also examine the FBI and Department of Homeland Security’s failure in preparing the police for the mob that stormed Capitol Hill. This evidence will be key to the house committee’s final decision on this case.
An online detective behind this case – working with both the committee and the FBI – has a little story that presents to officials why the FBI wasn’t prepared for the attack. The FBI shouldn’t have been unprepared for the mob.
When the sleuth needed to transfer a large file to the committee, he sent it in Dropbox, and when he had something for the FBI, secret agents arrived at his house for the files to transfer manually.
The committee has focused a lot on Ex-President Trump’s actions before and after the event. This is a major part of the case, but if they want a solid conclusion, they need to investigate the failures of law enforcement more. Thankfully, there’s a special team called the “blue team” of detectives.
A committee aide told NBC News that this team of investigators will only be focused on law enforcement’s unpreparedness and failure to act during the siege. They will be investigating the FBI, military, and Intelligence agents.
“The [blue] team has conducted more than 100 interviews and depositions touching on these matters of security and intelligence across several federal and local agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Fusion Centers, Office of Intelligence & Analysis, among others,” the aide said. “The team is looking into what intelligence these agencies had at their disposal, how that intelligence was analyzed, stitched together, and distributed; and whether law enforcement operationalized that intelligence.”
Liz Cheney mentioned the “blue team” is headed by the famous Soumya Dayananda, who worked for more than a decade as a federal prosecutor – who’d once been after the Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman case – before joining the house committee.
The “blue team’s” results will be in the final reports of the committee and will be in other hearings in the future.
“What we aren’t going to do… is blame the Capitol Police, blame those in law enforcement, for Donald Trump’s armed mob that he sent to the Capitol,” Cheney said. “Clearly, there were intelligence failures. Clearly, the security should have operated better than it did. But this was a mob Donald Trump sent to the Capitol, and I think that’s important to keep our eye on.”
The FBI has been generally defensive and slow on the Jan. 6th riot, but they did some work to prevent the mob from expanding. They have encouraged travelers to not go to D.C. And they have fended off the mob after they broke into the Capitol. But further investigation and monitoring will follow. The bureau also claims it has improved efficiency and preparation since the siege.
But investigators must act fast if the Republicans take over the house committee in the midterms. The detectives must act fast to get more information on FBI failures and Trump’s encouragement of the mob to historically end this long-lasting case.
But sources have told NBC News that, behind the scenes, these failures have not been forgotten, and the Jan. 6th committee plans to host another round of public hearings in September. The hearings are expected to focus more on the intelligence and law enforcement failures. It will also examine the FBI and Department of Homeland Security’s failure in preparing the police for the mob that stormed Capitol Hill. This evidence will be key to the house committee’s final decision on this case.
An online detective behind this case – working with both the committee and the FBI – has a little story that presents to officials why the FBI wasn’t prepared for the attack. The FBI shouldn’t have been unprepared for the mob.
When the sleuth needed to transfer a large file to the committee, he sent it in Dropbox, and when he had something for the FBI, secret agents arrived at his house for the files to transfer manually.
The committee has focused a lot on Ex-President Trump’s actions before and after the event. This is a major part of the case, but if they want a solid conclusion, they need to investigate the failures of law enforcement more. Thankfully, there’s a special team called the “blue team” of detectives.
A committee aide told NBC News that this team of investigators will only be focused on law enforcement’s unpreparedness and failure to act during the siege. They will be investigating the FBI, military, and Intelligence agents.
“The [blue] team has conducted more than 100 interviews and depositions touching on these matters of security and intelligence across several federal and local agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, Fusion Centers, Office of Intelligence & Analysis, among others,” the aide said. “The team is looking into what intelligence these agencies had at their disposal, how that intelligence was analyzed, stitched together, and distributed; and whether law enforcement operationalized that intelligence.”
Liz Cheney mentioned the “blue team” is headed by the famous Soumya Dayananda, who worked for more than a decade as a federal prosecutor – who’d once been after the Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman case – before joining the house committee.
The “blue team’s” results will be in the final reports of the committee and will be in other hearings in the future.
“What we aren’t going to do… is blame the Capitol Police, blame those in law enforcement, for Donald Trump’s armed mob that he sent to the Capitol,” Cheney said. “Clearly, there were intelligence failures. Clearly, the security should have operated better than it did. But this was a mob Donald Trump sent to the Capitol, and I think that’s important to keep our eye on.”
The FBI has been generally defensive and slow on the Jan. 6th riot, but they did some work to prevent the mob from expanding. They have encouraged travelers to not go to D.C. And they have fended off the mob after they broke into the Capitol. But further investigation and monitoring will follow. The bureau also claims it has improved efficiency and preparation since the siege.
But investigators must act fast if the Republicans take over the house committee in the midterms. The detectives must act fast to get more information on FBI failures and Trump’s encouragement of the mob to historically end this long-lasting case.