the committee of the House of Representatives of the United States investigating the storming the capitol concluded that the fbi and the country’s security agencies could have repelled the riot on January 6, 2021.
former federal prosecutor Tim Heaphy indicated that there were errors in the application of the federal lawnoting that security agencies should have acted on the intelligence documents collected.
“(Trump) was the immediate cause: if it hadn’t been for his words and deeds, it wouldn’t have happened. Having said that, what happened at the Capitol was also affected by mistakes by law enforcement to put to work the extensive intelligence that was present before January 6 on threats of violence,” Heaphy explained.
The main adviser to the investigation stressed that “Law enforcement had a very direct role in contributing to the security lapses that led to the violence.a”, according to statements collected by the American chain NBC.
He specified that the Capitol was inadequately defended on January 6, not because of an intelligence error, but because intelligence showing that supporters of the former president were not acted on donald trump they intended to go to Washington and use violence to prevent the certification of the electoral victory of the current president, Joe Biden.
“There was a lot of advanced intelligence on law enforcement, on carrying weapons, on the vulnerability of the Capitol. The information beforehand was quite specific and, in our opinion, it was enough for law enforcement to do a better job,” he stated.
The researchers also concluded that the capitol police it did not deploy enough troops, as federal agencies failed to spread “alarm about the threat” and were “overly cautious.” Also, there was confusion about which federal agency was in charge, which hampered the response.
The committee noted that the agencies made “a crucial mistake” by not publishing a intelligence bulletin about the threats, while reiterating that the answer would have been very different “if the protesters were black”.
The FBI defended itself by assuring that it did everything it could in the incident.
“From January 6, 2021, the fbi has continually reviewed our processes, procedures, and policies to assess lessons learned and make improvements in communication and in the collection, analysis, and sharing of information,” the federal police explained.
On January 27, a 33-year-old man who attacked two police officers with pepper spray during the storming the capitol he was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison.
Julian Khater, Originally from New Jersey, he was convicted by a federal court of D.C. for two counts of assault on a policeman.
One of the two officers who was attacked by Khater, the policeman Brian Sicknick, He died a day after the assault.
Khater traveled to Washington DC on January 6 with another detainee for those events. Among his belongings were two cans of bear repellent and two cans of pepper spray, according to the prosecution. Justice Department.
After listening to the speech that the former president donald trump gave that day from White Housethe two men walked to the Capitol, where they confronted, along with a mob, the agents who were trying to stop their entry into the building.
During this confrontation, Khater used pepper spray to attack Sicknick and another officer.
(With information from Europa Press and EFE)
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