Senate Investigation Argues DHS, FBI Officials “Downplayed” or Failed to Properly Share Warnings of Violence Ahead of Jan 6.

A scathing new report from Democrats on a Senate panel accuses the FBI of “downplaying” and failing to thoroughly communicate the risks and warnings ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The investigation by the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee blamed both the FBI officials and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence analysts for misjudging or misreading the risks, sluggishly and passively issuing warnings and “finger pointing” in the aftermath of the tragedy.

A 105-page report issued by committee Democrats Tuesday made comparisons between failures preceding Jan. 6 and those made before the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. The report said, “Repeating the ‘failure of imagination’ that the 9/11 Commission described nearly 20 years earlier, the intelligence processes in advance of January 6th suffered from a bias toward discounting intelligence that indicated an unprecedented event.”

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