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b'\\u201cTheir plan is to literally kill people. Please please take this tip seriously and investigate further.\\u201dA lead investigator for the 1/6 House Select Committee determined that the inadequate defense of the U.S Capitol wasn\\u2019t due to a lack of knowledge, but rather a failure to act on intelligence they received. They had knowledge but chose not to act.The Daily is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts/podcasts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.The January 6th Committee had to make choices about what to focus on in its televised hearings, and they choose to focus on Trump world\\u2019s role in inciting the attempted self-coup/domestic terrorist attack.But they left out some vital information about the failure of law enforcement to act on a large volume of advance tips. They left this out of the final report, as well, and that raises a lot of questions that we aren\\u2019t likely to get answers to so long as Republicans are in charge of the House.\\u201cThe House Jan. 6 committee concluded that the FBI and other federal security agencies could have prevented a violent mob from overrunning the Capitol had they acted on the large volume of intelligence collected beforehand, the chief investigator told NBC News in an exclusive interview \\u2014 a judgment the committee left out of its televised hearings and final report.\\u201dHeaphy said he agrees with what Washington, D.C.\\u2019s National Guard commander, William Walker, told the committee: The response would have been much different, before and during the attack, \\u201cif these protesters were Black and brown.\\u201dThey determined that the inadequate defense of the U.S Capitol wasn\\u2019t due to a lack of knowledge, but rather a failure to ACT on intelligence they had that warned extremists were coming to Washington to use violence to stop the certification of Joe Biden\\u2019s victory.The lead investigator told NBC: \\u201cThere was a lot of advance intelligence about law enforcement, about carrying weapons, about the vulnerability of the Capitol. The intel in advance was pretty specific, and it was enough, in our view, for law enforcement to have done a better job.\\u201dHere\\u2019s an example of the kinds of tips that got ignored. An FBI tipster in December 2020, reported under types of tips: \\u201cAttempted coup/terrorist attack on Jan 6th.\\u201d\\u201cThey think that they will have a large enough group to march into DC armed and will outnumber the police so they can\\u2019t be stopped. They believe that since the election was \\u2018stolen\\u2019 that it\\u2019s their constitutional right to overtake the government and during this coup no US laws apply ... Their plan is to literally kill people. Please please take this tip seriously and investigate further.\\u201dThe Daily is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.This tipster also linked to the actual plans for the attack. The tipster said they planned to overtake the White House and that they would be armed.The tip form asks if there are known associates. The tipster has an answer for that, too. \\xa0\\u201cDonald Trump - Proud Boys believe that Trump called them to action by telling them to go to DC on Jan 6th and act "wild". The group that is organizing the attack is the Proud Boys terrorist group.\\u201dEven for an agency that must get a lot of reports, this seems like a huge miss. They must have a flag set up for \\u201cdomestic terrorism\\u201d tips.But that there was that memo reported in the fall of 2021 demonstrating how Homeland Security suddenly decided to control and restrict the flow of \\u201celection-related threats\\u201d to law enforcement ahead of 1/6.CNN reported on September 14, 2021:\\u201cA few months before rioters stormed the US Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security restricted the flow of open-source intelligence reports about \\u201celection-related threats\\u201d to law enforcement, citing First Amendment concerns, according to documents reviewed by CNN.\\u201dThat staffer \\u2014 the guy who sent the order to restrict the flow of election-related threats \\u2014 he also served on the House January 6th Committee.\\u201cJoseph Maher, who changed the protocols around disseminating open-source information as head of DHS\\u2019 intelligence arm, is now on the staff of the House Select Committee on January 6.\\u201dWe discussed the suppression of information and downplaying of troubling connections between Trump and the Russians in the Russia investigation last week. One aspect that we are still going to dig into more is the failure of law enforcement, given the arrest for the former head of counterintelligence at the New York FBI office, where \\u201ctips went to die,\\u201d for allegedly working for the Russian he was supposed to have been investigating prior to his retirement.Let\\u2019s take that established suppression of information that was damaging to Trump and view it along with this lead investigator saying, \\u201cThe intel in advance was pretty specific, and it was enough, in our view, for law enforcement to have done a better job.\\u201dWe know that under Trump the Department of Homeland Security deliberately and with no legitimate reason cited \\u2014 especially given that administration\\u2019s contempt for the First Amendment \\u2014 restricted, as in stopped the flow, of intel relating to domestic terrorism threats and election-related violence.The 1/6 Committee put Maher in charge of investigating intelligence dissemination failures that occurred, as critics pointed out in the CNN piece, \\u201cunder his leadership.\\u201d The 1/6 Committee says Maher recused himself from these matters, but it\\u2019s fair to ask why they chose not to share this vital part of their findings, given that the safety of Americans is quite literally hanging in the balance. So this is two times that we know of, and not even including the scourge of Trump protector Bill Barr weaponizing the DOJ for Trump and hiding potential criminal tips about Trump\\u2019s financial dealings, in which someone has been put in a position of oversight or investigation into matters in which they are possibly compromised or at the very least, incapable of impartiality. Government is always full of corruption, like all entities, and that is why oversight is so important. But it\\u2019s also true that Trump took this corruption to heretofore unseen heights. His ability to corrupt the DOJ, FBI offices, and the DHS should be investigated and prioritized with legislation to keep from happening again.The Republican-led House won\\u2019t do it, but don\\u2019t let their lack of patriotism stop you from demanding that they do their job.Thank you for reading The Daily. This post is public so feel free to share it.

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