WASHINGTON — A new Senate report sharply criticizes the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis for not acting on information about the potential for violence leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., on Tuesday released an investigation prepared by the Democratic staff on the panel, titled “Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the Intelligence Failures in Advance of January 6th, 2021.”
“Despite the high volume of tips and online traffic about the potential for violence — some of which the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Office of Intelligence and Analysis were aware of as early as December 2020 — these agencies failed to sound the alarm and share critical intelligence information that could have helped law enforcement better prepare for the events of January 6th, 2021,” Peters said in a news release.
