The Secret Service knew about Jan 6 threat. They dismissed it.

[demmiblue]

In the days before the January 6 attack on the Capitol, documents exchanged between the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies outlined “threats of violence” on the 6th, coming “predominantly from right wing groups” with “plans to bring weapons into the District,” according to documents obtained by CREW. The Secret Service knew that Trump’s supporters would be demonstrating around Freedom Plaza and the Capitol with the intent to cause violence, but the agency does not appear to have taken the threat seriously.

While the Secret Service downplayed threats posed by right-wing extremist groups and Trump’s supporters leading up to January 6, the newly obtained documents reveal just how grave and explicit the threats had actually been.



The National Capital Region Threat Intelligence Consortium (NTIC) disseminated these threats in messages and a conference call on the morning of January 4, providing a clear and prescient warning of the violence to come. NTIC alerted the Secret Service, FBI, Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police Department among other law enforcement groups of “on-line communications citing violence in DC on 1-6-21,” which included objectives such as “Occupying the Capitol to influence lawmakers to change election results,” “Call to come with guns,” “Be prepared to battle” and “Exercise 2nd Amendment rights.”





Groups identified as coming with a potential to cause violence included the Oath Keepers, the 3%ers and neo-Nazi groups Atomwaffen and Storm Front. In spite of this warning, the Secret Service noted “There is no indication of civil disobedience” stemming from the right-wing extremist groups involved in the riot. Upon learning of the Proud Boys’ intent to arrive in DC on January 6, the Secret Service released an internal memo that disclosed no indication of concern—despite the Proud Boys stating they will turn out in “record numbers.”

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-secret-service-knew-about-jan-6-threat-they-dismissed-it/

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[bullimiami]

1. Bullshit. They took it seriously. Did nothing because of Trump.

[SergeStorms]

8. Like Trump, they knew they weren't there....

as a threat to Trump, they were there to kill members of Congress and Mike Pence.

Let Pence's detail worry about that. Trump's detail could stand down.

The SS is rotten to the core.

[MyMission]

25. I had the same reaction

And the ones in charge were loyal to tfg.

[SledDriver]

10. Tells you all you need to know

[markodochartaigh]

20. Truth

Sometimes the truth is so intuitively obvious that it gets ignored.

[jaxexpat]

27. Trump was not their master. He was their patsy.

This whole things smells of the machinations of TPTB for whom the USSS is but a functionary. Thinking they are having some internal squabbles and have yet to agree on the direction of a path forward from the Trump era.

[Sky Jewels]

2. Oh, I'm sure they knew the threat was serious ...

but they were pro-coup d'etat and didn't want to mess up the plan to install Dear Leader as Dictator for Life.

[AkFemDem]

3. Everyone with a tv or Twitter feed knew about threats.

[Ponietz]

5. Real-time open source analysis (ROSA)

Must be law enforcement jargon for sit on your ass and stare at your cell phone (SOYAASAYCP).

[uponit7771]

11. right ?! I feel the same way about the Pentagon staff, if they needed to be told to get off their ..

... asses and do something then we're fucked.

They're 3 miles away from the capital building they could've walked there in an hour and made a difference

[Wednesdays]

16. Hell, even here on DU there were posters warning us to stay away from D.C. on the 6th

Because of imminent violence.

[CrispyQ]

4. The entire system/country is infested with trumpers.-nt

[relayerbob]

6. People need to quit saying "dismissed" or "ignored"

They were in on it. They were helping it along. If there had been even a hint of a real threat to trump, he would've been removed from DC or at least sent to the underground bunker.

[Meadowoak]

12. +1

[James48]

7. I'm curious-

Who is “MAGA Drag”?

Do they do story time?

[WA-03 Democrat]

9. MAGA Drag Queens

Is what I thought!

[jmowreader]

13. I checked

First, there IS a pro-Trump queen who calls herself “Lady MAGA.” Apparently she went to a Fuentes rally and got booed out of the place. Which…you’d expect.

The group in question is “MAGA Drag the Interstate.” Their activity is primarily forming huge convoys and driving around with Trump flags on their pickups, probably taking up both lanes. But I’d believe they’d have a taste for violence if properly enticed.

[LudwigPastorius]

14. It is not the mission of the Secret Service to protect the Capitol or those in Congress.

[Joinfortmill]

24. I don't think it's their mission to stand around and say nothing either.

But then I'm just an old broad. What the hell do I know.

[stopdiggin]

28. yeah. headline kind of an example of climbing aboard

the bandwagon. A more accurate (or relevant) line might have read, "A whole boatload of agencies were aware .." With the SService being nowhere near 'primary' or lead - in either assessment, or prep.

Their 'parent' agency on the other hand ...

[Cozmo]

15. tfg's Secret Service were in on the J6 insurrection, no doubt about it

[Kid Berwyn]

17. It's beginning to look a lot like treason.

The conspiracy seems to have involved a large number of Repuglians.

Lock them up.

[Joinfortmill]

23. And is FoxNews still playing day and night at our military bases? Asking for America.

[Lonestarblue]

18. Carol Leonnig (WaPo) made an interesting comment about the Secret Service recently.

She was on MSNBC and said that the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago would normally have called for advance notice to Trump’s SS detail. Instead, they were given a heads up very close to the FBI arriving. Sounds like the FBI does not trust those agents.

[Joinfortmill]

22. One of them could be the leak

[FakeNoose]

30. I think Carol gets a lot of down-low stuff from certain Secret Service guys

Maybe she's got a close friend or relative in the SS who feeds her stuff? I don't know.
She'll never reveal her source of course.

[Ilsa]

19. Oath Keepers, Atomwaffen, Storm Front, 3%ers, etc. How could they

ignore these names unless it was intentional?

Clean up on Aisle SS needed!

[Joinfortmill]

21. There needs to be an accounting. People died.

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. Needs a Congressional Investigation. Then a total rehaul.

[UTUSN]

29. Hah!