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The head of intelligence at D.C.s homeland security office was growing desperate. For days, Donell Harvin
Donell Harvin and his team had spotted increasing signs that supporters of President Donald Trump were planning violence when Congress met to formalize the electoral college vote, but federal law enforcement agencies did not seem to share his sense of urgency. On Saturday, Jan. 2, he picked up the phone and called his counterpart in San Francisco, waking Mike Sena before dawn.
Sena listened with alarm. The Northern California intelligence office he commanded had also been inundated with political threats flagged by social media companies, several involving plans to disrupt the joint session or hurt lawmakers on Jan. 6.
He organized an unusual call for all of the nations regional homeland security offices known as fusion centers to find out what others were seeing. Sena expected a couple dozen people to get on the line that Monday. But then the number of callers hit 100. Then 200. Then nearly 300. Officials from nearly all 80 regions, from New York to Guam, logged on.
In the 20 years since the country had created fusion centers in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Sena couldnt remember a moment like this. For the first time, from coast to coast, the centers were blinking red. The hour, date and location of concern was the same: 1 p.m., the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6.
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Walleye
(31,028 posts)elleng
(130,974 posts)The hour, date and location of concern was the same: 1 p.m., the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6.'
elleng
(130,974 posts)to ignore.
pdxflyboy
(678 posts)LE wanted it to happen!!!!!!!
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)LIHOP
jmowreader
(50,559 posts)TFG's minions disarmed the Capitol Police as much as they could, and stopped the DC National Guard from being on alert during the certification. This was on purpose: because TFG had ordered the coup attempt, he couldn't have anyone with a lot of firepower on hand fucking it up.