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Capitol Police Head Claims FBI Never Warned Cops About January 6 ‘War’ Threat

Emily Zanotti
Capitol Police Head Claims FBI Never Warned Cops About January 6 ‘War’ Threat
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The former head of the United States Capitol Police, Steven Sund, told a Senate committee Tuesday that cops in charge of Capitol security did not receive a copy of an FBI memo that warned of a “war” at the Capitol on January 6th.

Although Democrats have operated on the theory that President Donald Trump incited an impromptu attack on the Capitol building, encouraging his supporters to disrupt a planned vote verifying the results of the November presidential election, The Washington Post reported that the FBI had compiled a memo detailing a credible threat of planned violence on January 6th.

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