Politics & Government
Capitol Riot 'Planned In Plain Sight,' Bipartisan Report Reveals
Security and response failures left police without the tools they needed to defend the Capitol, the report found.
WASHINGTON, DC — A newly-released bipartisan report — a product of a roughly five-month, joint probe by the Senate Homeland Security and Rules Committees — found failures at nearly every level of government that led to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The 95-page report primarily focused on security planning and response failures surrounding the insurrection led by a pro-Trump mob attempting to stop the certification of 2020 presidential election results.
"We do know there were significant, widespread and unacceptable breakdowns in the intelligence gathering and security preparations and emergency response during the attack," said Sen. Gary Peters, who chairs the Homeland Security panel, calling it "an important start."
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"The attack was, quite frankly, planned in plain sight," Peters, D-Mich., said.
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