Ex-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund advised lawmakers on Tuesday throughout a listening to earlier than the Senate Guidelines and Homeland Safety committees that he didn’t get the FBI report warning of violence on January 6.
The FBI issued a report January 5, at some point earlier than the riot on the Capitol dome constructing that detailed requires violence.
Mr. Sund stated his division had obtained the FBI report, however it by no means reached his workplace.
Sund testified that an officer with the Joint Terrorism Process Pressure with the FBI obtained the report after which gave it to an official within the Intel Division on the US Capitol Police HQ.
“I truly simply within the final 24 hours was knowledgeable by the division that we truly had obtained that report,” Sund stated. “It didn’t go any additional than that.”
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.@SenJeffMerkley asks former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund about FBI Intelligence Report.
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The FBI, NYPD and USCP had prior information of plans for violence on the US Capitol, together with intel threatening homicide of law enforcement officials.
The query is, what did Pelosi know?
Pelosi knew the assault was pre-planned and probably had intel that most of the attackers had been far-left insurgency teams.
Pelosi, DC Mayor Bowser and Mitch McConnell additionally refused will increase in safety on January sixth for the US Capitol.