WASHINGTON — Republican efforts to formally rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol — and President Donald Trump’s role in it — are poised to reach dizzying new heights.
Though House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) first from Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in 2023 found that the FBI and Department of Homeland Security overlooked a number of tips about looming violence on Jan. 6, particularly those coming from far-right extremists like the Proud Boys.
While some intelligence agencies were aware of calls to violence proliferating on social media from those groups, as well as thousands of individuals, the intelligence community didn’t see the threats as “credible.” The 2023 report showed that most agencies “failed to fully and accurately assess the severity of the threat identified by that intelligence, and formally disseminate guidance to their law enforcement partners.”
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