National Public Radio (NPR) reported, on Tuesday, a Report from the former Head of the New York Police Department, makes it clear that Everyone knew that the Trump Campaign was deeply Entangled with White Supremacist Militias.
Everyone knew that they were coming to Washington, D.C., with the Intention of Committing Violence.
Well before Jan. 6th, the FBI and Agencies, up and down the Chain at Homeland Security (DHS) had compiled Stacks of Evidence showing that Trump’s Event was going to bring Violent People with Violent Intent.
It’s just that, having Collected this Information, all those Agencies Refused to Act on it. “Intelligence collection did not fail,” says the Report. The Failure was that “senior government officials” Failed to “issue warnings based on that intelligence."
In particular, the Report focuses on a Department inside the DHS called the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. That’s the Department that’s Charged with: taking All the Intelligence gathered by more Field-Oriented Agencies and Synthesizing it into a useful Picture of Upcoming Events and Concerns.
The “threat assessments” that seemed to give such Conflicting Views of what to Expect on Jan. 6th were Largely a Product of this Department.
The Problems here seem to have been Plentiful:
- First, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis itself was treated as a Junior Partner for many of the Agencies. As a result, it was both Understaffed and Populated with People who would rather be almost anywhere else.
- Second, even though it was the One Place that was supposed to Drag Together Information that might have been sourced by the FBI, Local Police, or some other Intelligence Agency, the Feedback from the Office was widely Ignored.
-Third, like every Agency in the DHS, the Office of Intelligence and Analysis was Subject to the Whims of Leadership.
Under Trump, that included taking almost All the Resources of the Office and Focusing them on Evaluating supposed Threats along the Border, while barely Acknowledging any Threat from Right-Wing Militia, even though Agencies had Long Identified these Militias as the Nation’s Greatest Internal Threat.
In the Case of Reports that should have Emerged Preceding the Events of Jan. 6th, much of the gathered Information appears to have simply gone Missing-in-Action.
DHS Analysts were apparently Pressured to “Fall in Line,” and provide Reports that Matched what the Trump White House wanted to see. That includes simply Refusing to Acknowledge the Threat posed by Violent Right-Wing Extremists.
By Suppressing the Intelligence Information that had been Collected by Agencies across the Nation, DHS essentially set up the Police to Fail.
Questions needing Answers:
- Where did the original Money come from that Paid for the Rally Permit?
- Why was the March to the Capital allowed to happen when there was NO Permit?
- Why was Right-Wing Extremists allowed to join the Rally before the March to the Capital began?
- What was the Rules of Engagement?
- Who Controled the National Guide movement, the Pentagon or the President?
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote! Michael H. Drucker
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