Pre insurrection warnings

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A new report from the Washington Post published on Sunday detailed a deep dive into the extensive warnings the federal government received of potential violence and efforts to interfere with Congress's counting of the Electoral College votes on Jan. 6. Despite this ample foreshadowing, the administration and law enforcement agencies were still unable or unwilling to prepare adequate defenses to keep the mob from storming the Capitol that day.

The FBI, in particular, comes off looking inept — if not driven by politically inspired cowardice or indifference

"The FBI received numerous warnings about Jan. 6 but felt many of the threatening statements were 'aspirational' and could not be pursued," the report found.

Donell Harvin, the head of intelligence at the homeland security office in Washington, D.C., did raise the alarm, according to the report. It explained how he "organized an unusual call for all of the nation's regional homeland security offices" — a call joined by hundreds of officials sharing their concerns. They were reportedly warning of an attack on Jan. 6 at 1 p.m. at the U.S. Capitol, just when the insurrection occurred. The planning was happening all over social media, after all — inspired by then-President Donald Trump's own tweets and rhetoric. Harvin reached out to the FBI and other agencies to warn them of what was coming, the report found.

He feared a "mass casualty event," according to the Post.

"While the public may have been surprised by what happened on Jan. 6, the makings of the insurrection had been spotted at every level, from one side of the country to the other," it said. "The red flags were everywhere."

Despite specific warnings of the exact nature of the attack that was coming — the planning of which would certainly be illegal — it appears the FBI limited itself for fear of infringing on First Amendment-protected activity. The Post also suggested that FBI Director Christopher Wray, who was often under fire from Trump, feared angering the man who appointed him by speaking out about the potential for violence.

Wray remains in his position to this day.

Meanwhile, the Post reported, the Department of Homeland Security did not put out a security bulletin to alert other agencies of the dangers, despite receiving, "sobering assessments of the risk of possible violence on Jan. 6, including that federal buildings could be targeted by protesters."

‘What are you doing? Take back the Senate! You’ve got guns. Use them,” Graham told Capitol police, according to an extensive report from the Washington Post, which described Graham as “irate” that senators were forced to leave their chambers during the storming of the Capitol.

The Washington Post stated the quotes were based on an unnamed Republican senator with knowledge of the incident.

It's amazing to me people are still calling this incident an "insurrection" when the Trump supporters turned up unarmed. Once they'd forced their way inside the building, they just wandered around for a bit, and then left. This stuff is on video. You can see videos of the so-called insurrectionists having casual conversations with the employees inside the building. Were any hostages taken?

I don't know how people can read the report in the OP and not be able to read between the lines. The authorities didn't prepare for an insurrection because they knew there wouldn't be an insurrection. They knew that the crowd would be rowdy but not dangerous, and so they saw an opportunity to sell their made-up narrative about a "domestic terrorist threat to the United States".

Now we are only a few months down the line, and the authorities are trying to pin the label of "domestic terrorist" on parents who object to the crap their children have to put up with in school. That didn't take long, did it? And yet some people still refuse to question the narrative.

The insurrectionists were armed just not with guns.  Are you confident if the people who stormed the capital had gotten to Pence or AOC etc would not have taken them hostage or harmed them?  I am confident they would have and I don’t have to read between the lines "Kill Pence" is pretty straightforward.