Federal agencies neglected to share threat information with each other leading up to January 6.
U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI properly identified “credible threats” to the Capitol but did not adequately share information about those threats in the time leading up to the January 6 insurrection, impeding the response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol, aViolent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Jan.
Some agencies did not have policies that enabled threat information to be shared, while others, like the Capitol Police, failed to inform some of their own members of impending threats, theThe GAO said most agencies used the same methods to identify January 6 related threats as they did for other demonstrations in the nation's capital, including previous Make America Great Again rallies and the racial justice demonstrations in the summer of 2020—and Department of Homeland Security Office of...
The GAO recommended most agencies implement plans to improve internal or external communications to better respond to future threats—said it will update its website with actions each agency takes.Federal agency response to the attack on the U.S. Capitol was questioned throughout the January 6 congressional committee’s year-and-a-half-long investigation into the Capitol riot.
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