Top DOJ Officials Were Told There Were "No Credible Threats" Hours Before The Capitol Insurrection

[Nevilledog]

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/capitol-riot-justice-department-documents-credible-threats

WASHINGTON — On Jan. 6 at 10:43 a.m., three top Justice Department officials received an email with an update on a briefing that morning from the counterterrorism section.

“There are no credible threats as of the 10:00 brief,” a person from the National Security Division whose name is redacted wrote to Richard Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general; Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney in Washington; and John Moran, chief of staff to Jeffrey Rosen, the acting attorney general.

By that time, thousands of people had gathered near the White House for a “Stop the Steal” rally. Former president Donald Trump’s supporters had been openly threatening violence online for weeks. The subsequent prosecution of hundreds of people charged with assaulting the Capitol — an attack that unfolded roughly two hours after the 10:43 a.m. email was sent — revealed that a number of them came armed. The night before, an as-yet-unidentified person had placed two pipe bombs at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee; those devices would be discovered a few hours after the email was sent.

The email was part of a cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that fills in more of the timeline of what was going on internally at the Justice Department before, during, and after the Capitol riot. The FBI afterward characterized the attack on the Capitol as an act of domestic terrorism, but the message from that morning showed that counterterrorism officials didn’t consider there to be a threat hours before.

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[dalton99a]

1. Somebody told them to downplay the threat.

[TigressDem]

2. Dog Whistle --- It's Only White People, not a threat. If they murder, not a crime under TFG 45 nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. Sounds like Redacted needs to be subpoenaed

[Botany]

4. This was all part of a planned coup.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Yep. People were wondering why

Trump replaced so many members of his cabinet with "acting" individuals. This is Exhibit A of why.

[Botany]

7. Trump replaced Sec. of Defense Mark Epser with acting head of the DoD Christopher Miller less ...

... then 1 week after he lost the election in Nov. 2020. Before Miller issued this "stand down order"
on 1/4/21 the D.C. National Guard had the authority and the autonomy to respond to threats to
the population of D.C., the Federal and local government, and property both public and private.

These mother fuckers including TFG need to indicted, arrested, given a fair trail, and locked up
for years if found guilty.

[David__77]

5. I was surprised the death count was as low as it was that day.

I had no special intelligence gathering tools, just ability to access freely available information and perform the required, simple analysis. For a moment the big powers said “oh shit,” and considered truly ending Trump politically, then the same powers decided their own destruction is better.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Projection all along

The Steal that needed to be stopped was the insurrection