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1) A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington
1) A day before rioters stormed Congress, an FBI office in Virginia issued an explicit internal warning that extremists were preparing to travel to Washington
2) to commit violence and “war,” according to an internal document reviewed by The Washington Post that contradicts a senior official’s declaration the bureau had no intelligence indicating anyone at last week’s pro-Trump protest planned to do harm. A situational information
3) report approved for release the day before the U.S. Capitol riot painted a dire portrait of dangerous plans, including individuals sharing a map of the complex’s tunnels, and possible rally points for would-be conspirators to meet up in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
4) and South Carolina and head in groups to Washington.
“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed
“As of 5 January 2021, FBI Norfolk received information indicating calls for violence in response to ‘unlawful lockdowns’ to begin on 6 January 2021 in Washington. D.C.,” the document says. “An online thread discussed
5) discussed specific calls for violence to include stating ‘Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go
6) Go there ready for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this goal.”BLM is likely a reference to the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice. Pantifa is a derogatory term for antifa, a far-left anti-fascist movement whose adherents sometimes
7) engage in violent clashes with right-wing extremists.Yet even with that information in hand, the report’s unidentified author expressed concern that the FBI might be encroaching on free speech rights. The warning is the starkest evidence yet of the sizable intelligence failure
8) that preceded the mayhem, which claimed the lives of five people, although one law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid disciplinary action, said the failure was not one of intelligence but of acting on the http://intelligence.An FBI official
9) familiar with the document said that within 45 minutes of learning about the alarming online conversation, the Norfolk FBI office wrote the report and shared it with others within the bureau. It was not immediately clear how many law enforcement agencies outside the FBI were
10) told, but the information was briefed to FBI officials at the bureau’s Washington field office the day before the attack, this official said. Multiple law enforcement officials have said privately in recent days that the level of violence exhibited at the Capitol has led to
11) difficult discussions within the FBI and other agencies about race, terrorism, and whether investigators failed to register the degree of danger because the overwhelming majority of the participants at the rally were White conservatives
12) fiercely loyal to the President Trump. “Individuals/Organizations named in this [situational information report] have been identified as participating in activities that are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” the document says. “Their inclusion here
13) “Individuals/Organizations named in this [situational information report] have been identified as participating in activities that are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” the document says. “Their inclusion here is not intended to associate the
14) the protected activity with criminality or a threat to national security, or to infer that such protected activity itself violates federal law.“However,” it continues, “based on known intelligence and/or specific historical observations, it is possible specific historical
15) observations, it is possible the protected activity could invite a violent reaction towards the subject individual or others in retaliation or with the goal of stopping the protected activity from occurring in the first instance. In the event no violent reaction occurs, FBI
16) policy and federal law dictates that no further record to be made of the protected activity.” The document notes that one online comment advised, “if Antifa or BLM get violent, leave them dead in the street,” while another said they need “people on standby to provide
17) supplies, including water and medical, to the front lines. The individual also discussed the need to evacuate noncombatants and wounded to medical care.” For weeks leading up to the event, FBI officials discounted any suggestion that the protest of pro-Trump supporters upset
18) For weeks leading up to the event, FBI officials discounted any suggestion that the protest of pro-Trump supporters upset about the scheduled certification of Joe Biden’s election could be a security threat on a scale with racial justice protests last summer in the wake
19) of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody.
While the nation’s capital is one of the most heavily guarded cities on the planet, local and federal law enforcement agencies sought to take a low-key approach to last week’s event, publicly
While the nation’s capital is one of the most heavily guarded cities on the planet, local and federal law enforcement agencies sought to take a low-key approach to last week’s event, publicly
20) and privately expressing concerns that they did not want to repeat the ugly clashes between protesters and police last year.Some law enforcement officials took the view that pro-Trump protesters are generally known for over-the-top rhetoric but not much violence, and
21) the event did not pose a particularly grave risk, according to people familiar with the security discussions leading up to Jan. 6.Even so, there were warning signs, though none as stark as the one from the FBI’s Norfolk office. (Washington Post: January 12, 2021).
The last
The last
22) line written should really anger many of us. Really, the whole article should. I've given you a good portion of the article & I hope it clearly lets you know that all of our law agencies need an overhaul, from the bottom to the top. Where we they when so many needed them?
