@George-K said in Jan 6 committee: It could have been stopped:
Funny how we're just hearing about the steps that FBI and other agencies DIDN'T take to prevent the riot on Jan 6th. Also funny how we didn't hear about THIS conclusion from the Jan 6th committee. It's almost as though there might have been information that they didn't want to make public.
From that RWEC, NBC:
The House Jan. 6 committee concluded that the FBI and other federal security agencies could have prevented a violent mob from overrunning the Capitol had they acted on the large volume of intelligence collected beforehand, the chief investigator told NBC News in an exclusive interview — a judgment the committee left out of its televised hearings and final report.
Former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy, the committee’s chief investigative counsel, said that while he endorses the panel’s main finding that then-President Donald Trump sparked the riot by urging protesters to go to the Capitol, his probe documented how federal law enforcement failures contributed to the debacle.
Trump “was the proximate cause. But for his words, and deeds, it wouldn’t have happened,” said Heaphy, who led many of the key witness interviews conducted by the committee. “That said, what happened at the Capitol was also affected by law enforcement failures to operationalize the ample intelligence that was present before Jan. 6, about the threats of violence.”
He added, “Law enforcement had a very direct role in contributing to the security failures that led to the violence.”
Committee investigators found that the Capitol was inadequately defended on Jan. 6 not because of an intelligence failure, Heaphy said, but because of a failure to act on intelligence showing that extremists intended to come to Washington and use violence to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory.
“There was a lot of advance intelligence about law enforcement, about carrying weapons, about the vulnerability of the Capitol,” he said. “The intel in advance was pretty specific, and it was enough, in our view, for law enforcement to have done a better job.”
While many lawmakers and outside experts have reached that conclusion, it hasn’t been previously reported that the most comprehensive investigation into the Capitol riot did so, too. It’s also notable that the lawmakers on the committee chose to downplay — and in some cases contradict — that finding.
From the beginning, I've noted the absence of analysis about the lack of security.
It's not that this absence is so worrisome in itself. It's just that it is proof of the transparent bias in the reaction. The TDS left couldn't have made more obvious, the joy they took in January 6, and the disingenuous posturing of their faux-solemn reactions.
