The Washington Post is currently publishing a series of articles, basically exposing what
happened in the run-up to the events of January 6th, the Capitol riot. And one of the biggest
revelations that they've made so far is that the FBI, as early as December six, so a full
month before the insurrection took place, the FBI was receiving what would, what they called
highly specific threats coming from right-wingers and people concerned about the right-wingers
and the FBI did absolutely nothing about it. Here's just a few, a few of the threats.
Please be in DC armed on the sixth. You might have to kill the palace guards. Are you okay with that?
Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there. Will be wild. Another one says, drop a handful,
the rest will flee, meaning, kill a couple of people and then everybody's going to clear out.
And again, that's just a small sampling of what the FBI actually had.
So there is no denying, and of course we knew this even before this report came out, there is
no denying that the FBI knew that bad things were going to happen in DC on that day. And part of the
reason we know that is because the FBI actually did do a little bit of, you know, proactive
policing by arresting a few individuals who had made threats when they arrived in Washington, DC.
But that was just a couple. They received far more than just two threats from two people. They could
have stopped these people in their tracks. They could have been on the lookout for them. They
could have been proactive about this entire thing. They could have shut down the stop the
steal rally. Yes, I know that would have enraged those Trump supporters, but for the safety of
everyone in Washington, DC, that's the kind of thing that should have happened, but it didn't.
We also know as was reported last week that the Capitol police also, also suffered
from catastrophic failures in planning. Their internal 17 page memo leading up to January 6th,
it actually came out the day before January six, on January 5th, they were told by their superiors
to be more concerned about the counter protesters than they should be about the stop the steal
folks. They even said in that 17 page memo, that they haven't seen any credible threats of violence
from the stop the steal people. On the other hand, be on the lookout for counter protesters,
you know, sneaking through the bushes and trying to get into the Capitol.
These are the kinds of things that the select committee needs to be investigating.
I know we've had the hearing, we've had the Capitol police come up and
tell the horrifying stories of what they endured that day and that was beneficial.
But now it's time to bring in the superiors. It's time to bring in the people who drafted that memo
that said, look out for counter protesters. Don't worry about the stop the steal folks.
I want to hear from them and I want it to be televised. I want them to explain why they lied
and said there were no credible threats when the FBI had been receiving credible threats
for a straight month. And I want the FBI to show up at that hearing too and I want them
to have to answer the tough questions about why they got these threats and did nothing about it.
Those are the kinds of questions that the American public needs answers for.
These two agencies, the Capitol police and the FBI, we trust them to keep people safe.
And everything we have seen so far in the run-up to January 6th,
they knew they had a job to do, and they absolutely failed to do it.