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RandySF

(58,899 posts)
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:14 PM Jan 2021

Capitol Police Were Warned Three Days Before Attack

“Three days before thousands of rioters converged on the U.S. Capitol, an internal Capitol Police intelligence report warned of a violent scenario in which ‘Congress itself’ could be the target of angry supporters of President Trump on Jan. 6, laying out a stark alert that deepens questions about the security failures that day,” the Washington Post reports.

“In a 12-page report on Jan. 3, the intelligence unit for the congressional police force described how thousands of enraged protesters, egged on by Trump and flanked by white supremacists and extreme militia groups, were likely to stream into Washington armed for battle.”



https://politicalwire.com/2021/01/15/capitol-police-were-warned-three-days-before-attack/

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Capitol Police Were Warned Three Days Before Attack (Original Post) RandySF Jan 2021 OP
My first reaction to the insurrection was LuvNewcastle Jan 2021 #1
Did Trump know? Raven123 Jan 2021 #2

LuvNewcastle

(16,846 posts)
1. My first reaction to the insurrection was
Fri Jan 15, 2021, 09:24 PM
Jan 2021

that there wasn't any help for the police at the Capitol at all. I was shocked, more than anything else, that there weren't National Guard troops or Army troops there protecting the Capitol, especially considering that Congress was in session. That was by design, most definitely.

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