Many of the Capitol building’s weaknesses that made it vulnerable during the Jan. 6 riot remain unfixed nearly two years after the violent attack, according to a warning from the former Capitol Police chief.
Steven Sund, who resigned shortly after the Jan. 6 riot, offered a grave warning that the Capitol building remains vulnerable to attacks due to communication failures within the federal government and its law enforcement, the former police chief wrote in the newly released book Courage Under Fire. During the Jan. 6 riot, Capitol law enforcement scrambled to respond to the attack and failed to act on earlier warnings — mistakes that could easily happen again, he wrote.
“The security and information-sharing policies and mandates put in place after September 11 failed miserably on January 6,” Sund wrote. “We failed miserably to see the apparent warning signs and the danger, like a ‘gray rhino,’ charging right at us.”
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