Jan 6th DHS email 1:30pm NO issues at Capitol..
Oct 3, 2021 18:45:22 GMT
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Oct 3, 2021 18:45:22 GMT
There had already been guns found by National Park Police on the National Mall..
And who was in charge of DHS?!?!? Acting Secretary Chad Wolff ..... Wonder if his name will make the subpoena list?!?!
On Jan. 6, more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached barricades erected to protect the Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security sent an incongruous update to the Pentagon.
“There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time," read an internal Army email sent to senior leaders at 1:40 p.m. that day, referring to an update the service had just received from DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC).
The Pentagon has faced scorching criticism for taking hours to deploy National Guard units to the Capitol. But the glaring omission, detailed in an email obtained through a public records request, provides new information about inaccurate communications the Defense Department received as the day’s horrors unfolded. And it heightens concerns about the role of DHS, established in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, as pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, and the department’s ability to respond to crises.
“These emails raise serious questions about the response to the threat of January 6th,” said Jordan Libowitz, a spokesperson for the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a government watchdog group that obtained the email through a public records request and shared it with POLITICO.
A DHS spokesperson declined to directly address the previous administration’s Jan. 6 response, or answer follow-up questions about whether the department conveyed additional updates to the Pentagon via other channels.
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The first item on DHS’s 1:30 p.m. update list wasn’t even about D.C, according to the Army email; it was about National Guard units deployed in Wisconsin “in anticipation of prosecutorial decision” in the case of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot in the back seven times by a white police officer. The shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and generated national outcry. The DHS update noted that 851 National Guard personnel were ready for “Civil Disturbance Operations” in the wake of a local prosecutor’s announcement that he would not bring charges against the officer.
Then the update listed “DC Events Reported to DHS NOC” as its second item.
“In the last 2 hrs - There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time,” the report read.
Then it listed a number of non-issues: A suspicious package at a Metro station near the capitol was “cleared no threat;” a law enforcement agency “determined Proud Boys threatening to shut down the water system in the downtown area not a credible threat;” and “Protestors near 16th & Pennsylvania Ave reportedly with baseball bats; exaggerated report.”
It also noted that two buildings in the Capitol Complex were being evacuated because of a bomb threat against the Capitol Hill Club. The report did not note that that club — a hangout for Republican lobbyists and operatives — is next door to the Republican National Committee. A pipe bomb was found there that day.
As the two hours covered in that update came to a close, the attacks on the Capitol had already started. But you wouldn’t know it from the update.
“Why were significantly more National Guard personnel prepared to protect the Kenosha, Wisconsin area after the decision not to prosecute the police officer who shot Jacob Blake than were on hand to protect DC from Trump supporters?” said Libowitz. “An update as of 1:30 PM reported up to 20,000 people marching to the Capitol, but ‘There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time.’ But by 1 PM, rioters had already breached the barricade at the Capitol. Why did they not consider what was clearly going on to be serious?”
The events playing out at the Capitol throughout the afternoon, shown on live TV across the world, belied the understated DHS tick tock.
At 12:52 p.m. that day, then-U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund had said he realized danger was imminent. A huge group was heading to the Capitol, he said in congressional testimony, and it wasn’t any old D.C. protest.........
www.politico.com/news/2021/09/28/dhs-pentagon-jan-6-capitol-riot-514527
And who was in charge of DHS?!?!? Acting Secretary Chad Wolff ..... Wonder if his name will make the subpoena list?!?!
On Jan. 6, more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached barricades erected to protect the Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security sent an incongruous update to the Pentagon.
“There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time," read an internal Army email sent to senior leaders at 1:40 p.m. that day, referring to an update the service had just received from DHS’s National Operations Center (NOC).
The Pentagon has faced scorching criticism for taking hours to deploy National Guard units to the Capitol. But the glaring omission, detailed in an email obtained through a public records request, provides new information about inaccurate communications the Defense Department received as the day’s horrors unfolded. And it heightens concerns about the role of DHS, established in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, as pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol, and the department’s ability to respond to crises.
“These emails raise serious questions about the response to the threat of January 6th,” said Jordan Libowitz, a spokesperson for the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a government watchdog group that obtained the email through a public records request and shared it with POLITICO.
A DHS spokesperson declined to directly address the previous administration’s Jan. 6 response, or answer follow-up questions about whether the department conveyed additional updates to the Pentagon via other channels.
****
The first item on DHS’s 1:30 p.m. update list wasn’t even about D.C, according to the Army email; it was about National Guard units deployed in Wisconsin “in anticipation of prosecutorial decision” in the case of Jacob Blake, a Black man shot in the back seven times by a white police officer. The shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and generated national outcry. The DHS update noted that 851 National Guard personnel were ready for “Civil Disturbance Operations” in the wake of a local prosecutor’s announcement that he would not bring charges against the officer.
Then the update listed “DC Events Reported to DHS NOC” as its second item.
“In the last 2 hrs - There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time,” the report read.
Then it listed a number of non-issues: A suspicious package at a Metro station near the capitol was “cleared no threat;” a law enforcement agency “determined Proud Boys threatening to shut down the water system in the downtown area not a credible threat;” and “Protestors near 16th & Pennsylvania Ave reportedly with baseball bats; exaggerated report.”
It also noted that two buildings in the Capitol Complex were being evacuated because of a bomb threat against the Capitol Hill Club. The report did not note that that club — a hangout for Republican lobbyists and operatives — is next door to the Republican National Committee. A pipe bomb was found there that day.
As the two hours covered in that update came to a close, the attacks on the Capitol had already started. But you wouldn’t know it from the update.
“Why were significantly more National Guard personnel prepared to protect the Kenosha, Wisconsin area after the decision not to prosecute the police officer who shot Jacob Blake than were on hand to protect DC from Trump supporters?” said Libowitz. “An update as of 1:30 PM reported up to 20,000 people marching to the Capitol, but ‘There are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time.’ But by 1 PM, rioters had already breached the barricade at the Capitol. Why did they not consider what was clearly going on to be serious?”
The events playing out at the Capitol throughout the afternoon, shown on live TV across the world, belied the understated DHS tick tock.
At 12:52 p.m. that day, then-U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund had said he realized danger was imminent. A huge group was heading to the Capitol, he said in congressional testimony, and it wasn’t any old D.C. protest.........
www.politico.com/news/2021/09/28/dhs-pentagon-jan-6-capitol-riot-514527