{"id":26495,"date":"2021-03-03T05:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T05:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/03\/03\/national-security-officials-to-testify-on-jan-6-mistakes\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:28:34","slug":"national-security-officials-to-testify-on-jan-6-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/03\/03\/national-security-officials-to-testify-on-jan-6-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"National security officials to testify on Jan. 6 mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Federal national security officials are set to testify in the second Senate hearing about what went wrong on Jan. 6, facing questions about missed intelligence and botched efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/02\/23\/guard-response-to-capitol-riots-wasnt-hurt-by-politics-officials-insist\/\" target=_blank>quickly gather National Guard troops<\/a> that day as a violent mob laid siege to the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senators are eager Wednesday to grill the officials from the Pentagon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/06\/entire-dc-guard-activated-after-pro-trump-protestors-storm-capitol-building\/\" target=_blank>the National Guard<\/a>, and the Justice and Homeland Security departments about their preparations as supporters of then-President Donald Trump talked online, in some cases openly, about gathering in Washington and interrupting the electoral count.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a hearing last week, officials who were in charge of security at the Capitol blamed each other as well as federal law enforcement for their own lack of preparation as hundreds of rioters descended on the building, easily breached the security perimeter and eventually broke into the Capitol itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/01\/08\/officer-killed-in-capitol-attack-was-an-air-national-guard-vet\/\" target=_blank>Five people died<\/a> as a result of the rioting.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/02\/23\/guard-response-to-capitol-riots-wasnt-hurt-by-politics-officials-insist\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21042761722784.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Guard response to Capitol riots wasn\u2019t hurt by politics, officials insist<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Former Capitol Hill security leaders say they did not see intelligence predicting the need for military assistance ahead of the attack.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So far, lawmakers conducting investigations have focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/13\/fbi-says-it-warned-about-prospect-of-violence-ahead-of-us-capitol-riot\/\" target=_blank>failed efforts to gather and share intelligence<\/a> about the insurrectionists\u2019 planning before Jan. 6 and on the deliberations among officials about whether and when to call National Guard troops to protect Congress. The officials at the hearing last week, including ousted Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, gave conflicting accounts of those negotiations. Robert Contee, the acting chief of police for the Metropolitan Police Department, told senators he was \u201cstunned\u201d over the delayed response and said Sund was pleading with Army officials to deploy National Guard troops as the rioting rapidly escalated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senate Rules Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar, one of two Democratic senators who will preside over Wednesday\u2019s hearing, said in an interview Tuesday that she believes every moment counted as the National Guard decision was delayed and police officers outside the Capitol were beaten and injured by the rioters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAny minute that we lost, I need to know why,\u201d Klobuchar said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hearing comes as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/02\/05\/national-guard-deployment-to-secure-dc-will-cost-nearly-500-million\/\" target=_blank>thousands of National Guard troops are still patrolling the fenced-in Capitol <\/a>and as multiple committees across Congress are launching investigations into mistakes made on Jan. 6. The probes are largely focused on security missteps and the origins of the extremism that led hundreds of Trump\u2019s supporters to break through the doors and windows of the Capitol, hunt for lawmakers and temporarily stop the counting of electoral votes. Congress has, for now, abandoned any examination of Trump\u2019s role in the attack after the Senate acquitted him last month of inciting the riot by telling the supporters that morning to \u201cfight like hell\u201d to overturn his defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Senate hears from the federal officials, acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman will testify before a House panel that is also looking into how security failed. In a hearing last week before the same subcommittee, she conceded there were multiple levels of failures but denied that law enforcement failed to take seriously warnings of violence before the Jan. 6 insurrection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Senate, Klobuchar said there is particular interest in hearing from Maj. Gen. William Walker, the commanding general of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/12\/why-the-dc-national-guards-role-was-limited-during-us-capitol-riot\/\" target=_blank>the D.C. National Guard<\/a>, who was on the phone with Sund and the Department of the Army as the rioters first broke into the building. Contee, the D.C. police chief, was also on the call and told senators that the Army was initially reluctant to send troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile I certainly understand the importance of both planning and public perception \u2014 the factors cited by the staff on the call \u2014 these issues become secondary when you are watching your employees, vastly outnumbered by a mob, being physically assaulted,\u201d Contee said. He said he had quickly deployed his own officers and he was \u201cshocked\u201d that the National Guard \u201ccould not \u2014 or would not \u2014 do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contee said that Army staff said they were not refusing to send troops, but \u201cdid not like the optics of boots on the ground\u201d at the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1230734095.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.\" class=\"wp-image-26094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1230734095.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1230734095.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1230734095.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1230734095.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-1230734095.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1025 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Brent Stirton\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also testifying at the joint hearing of the Senate Rules Committee and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees are Robert Salesses of the Defense Department, Melissa Smislova of the Department of Homeland Security and Jill Sanborn of the FBI, all officials who oversee aspects of intelligence and security operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawmakers have grilled law enforcement officials about missed intelligence ahead of the attack, including a report from an FBI field office in Virginia that warned of online posts foreshadowing a \u201cwar\u201d in Washington. Capitol Police leaders have said they were unaware of the report at the time, even though the FBI had forwarded it to the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray said the report was disseminated though the FBI\u2019s joint terrorism task force, discussed at a command post in Washington and posted on an internet portal available to other law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the information was raw and unverified and appeared aspirational in nature, Wray said, it was specific and concerning enough that \u201cthe smartest thing to do, the most prudent thing to do, was just push it to the people who needed to get it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe did communicate that information in a timely fashion to the Capitol Police and (Metropolitan Police Department) in not one, not two, but three different ways,\u201d Wray 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