Lessons Learned from the January 6th Intelligence Failures
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Dahl, Erik
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2022-09-26
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The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has produced a great deal of material and riveting testimony about what happened that day, and about the actions of former President Trump and his administration. But to date the committee hearings have said relatively little about the many intelligence reports and other warnings that were available before Jan. 6, and why they appear to have been ineffective in helping to prevent what committee member Adam Kinzinger has called “a stain on our history.”
That lack of focus on intelligence may be corrected when the January 6 committee holds a hearing on Sept. 28, as press reports indicate that the Committee may reveal some of what its so-called “blue team,” the group examining how intelligence was analyzed by the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and others, has uncovered. But we don’t have to wait for the next set of committee hearings to begin to understand the intelligence lessons from January 6.
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The article of record as published may be found at https://www.justsecurity.org/83245/lessons-learned-from-the-january-6th-intelligence-failures/.
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Erik Dahl (2022) Lessons Learned from the January 6th Intelligence Failures, September 26, 2022 (https://www.justsecurity.org/83245/lessons-learned-from-the-january-6th-intelligence-failures/)
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