Numerous security concerns had been raised in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol, transcripts of interviews with law enforcement officials released by the Jan. 6 committee reveal.
The new revelations add to a growing body of evidence from news reports and court proceedings that illustrate how federal law enforcement officials were in possession of ample information that indicated Jan. 6 was going to be violent. As, staffers were informed that chapters prepared by committee staff — including material focused on law enforcement and intelligence failures — would be cut from the final version.
The Jan. 6 committee transcripts detailed the challenges facing the FBI in the lead-up to Jan. 6. Days before the attack, the FBI lost use of the program it had been using to track threats on social media, as the bureau transitioned to a new product to gather open source information. An FBI intelligence analyst raised concerns about that on New Year's Eve, as threats about Jan. 6 continued to increase.
“I wish you could see the volume,” Bowdich told the committee, referring to the number of threats the FBI reviews. “It is off the charts. ... One of our greatest challenges is social media today.” “The noise seemed to be growing as we got closer to the event, and it reached a point of we just didn’t know what was going to happen," Bowdich said."Sometimes you just get a sense for it when you’ve been doing it.”
Sund, the former Capitol Police chief who resigned the day after the attack, said that intelligence he received didn't"send up a bunch of red flags for me" because most protests target Congress. Harvin, the former chief of homeland security and intelligence for D.C., told the committee that Sund shouldn't characterize what happened as an intelligence failure, but as a failure to act on intelligence.
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