In a letter released Saturday, the leaders of four House committees announced that they were opening a review into the deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol last week and requested briefings and documents from key U.S. intelligence agencies.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Mass.), House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) sent a letter (pdf) on Saturday to FBI Director Christopher Wray, National Counterterrorism Center Acting Director Steve Vanech, Department of Homeland Security senior official Joseph Maher, and Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe demanding information related to the Jan. 6 breach and the security of coming inauguration.
“As the first step, and as described in the annex to this letter, the Committees ask that your organizations produce relevant documents, and schedule briefings, regarding specific intelligence matters associated with the insurrection and threats to the U.S. presidential inaugurations,” the committee leaders, all Democrats, wrote in the letter.
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The Democrats requested the agencies to provide related documents no later than 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 15.
They additionally required the agencies to come before the House Committees for a series of briefings starting from the week of Jan. 22-26.
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"The Committees expect and appreciate your full cooperation with this matter – while of course recognizing that resources appropriately and immediately must be allocated to efforts to counter any continuing threats to the transfer of power, including the presidential inauguration and related activities," the letter concludes. "The Committees stand ready to work with you to arrange for the requested production of documents and briefings."
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Protesters and activists stormed the Capitol when Congress was counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6 as hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters rallied for election integrity in the District of Columbia.
Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter, was shot dead by a U.S. Capitol Police officer as she illegally tried to climb into the House speaker’s lobby through a window.
A USCP officer, Brian Sicknick, died the day after he was injured while engaging with protesters. The direct causes of Sicknick’s injuries remain unknown, his family said in a Jan. 8 statement.
Three other people died of medical emergencies through the breach.
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The composition of the individuals who broke in is still being determined while various court filings show those being charged have been identified and associated with both right and left-wing groups.
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Experts noted that military hand signals and crowd control tactics appear to have been employed during the breach to agitate the protesters.
Steven D’Antuono, head of the FBI Washington field office, told reporters that the agency had “received a lot of intelligence” leading up to the Jan. 6 protest and had shared the information with law enforcement partners through its shared systems, The Epoch Times reported.
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