Tear Gas outside United States Capitol, Flickr, Tyler Merbler; January 6, 2020
https://www.c-span.org/video/?509061-1/joint-oversight-hearing-security-failures-attack-us-capitol
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Joint Oversight Hearing on Security Failures During Attack on U.S. Capitol
The Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hold a joint oversight hearing on security failures during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Editor’s Note: If you regularly tune into or record news stations/channels such as C-Span, CNN, MSNBC, Fox and other sources you may have recorded these hearings which we highly recommend.
The New York Times, February 23, 2021: “Three former top Capitol security officials and the chief of the Washington police blamed federal law enforcement and the Defense Department on Tuesday for intelligence failures ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and for slow authorization of the National Guard as the violence escalated. ” ‘None of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred,’ former Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund told senators who are investigating security failures related to the attack. He called the riot ‘the worst attack on law enforcement and our democracy that I have seen’ and said he witnessed insurrectionists assaulting officers not only with their fists but also with pipes, sticks, bats, metal barricades and flagpoles. ‘These criminals came prepared for war,’ Chief Sund said.”
Examining the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Part II
Joint Full Committee Hearing
Location: SD-G50 Dirksen Senate Building
Witnesses
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Melissa SmislovaSenior Official Performing the Duties of the Under SecretaryOffice of Intelligence and AnalysisU.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Jill SanbornAssistant Director, Counterterrorism DivisionFederal Bureau of InvestigationU.S. Department of Justice
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Robert G. SalessesSenior Official Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense and Global SecurityU.S. Department of Defense
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Major General William J. Walker, USACommanding GeneralDistrict of Columbia National Guard
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