Congress Investigates January 6 ... Again
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Last month, the majority staff of the Senate Rules and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report entitled “Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the Intelligence Failures in Advance of January 6th, 2021,” which explores one of the biggest remaining questions about that day: Why didn’t the government see this coming?
Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor of Lawfare, sat down with Quinta Jurecic, Senior Editor of Lawfare and Fellow at Brookings, and Ryan Reilly, Justice Reporter at NBC News, to discuss the report’s findings, how it fits in with other investigations about the insurrection, and where we go from here. You can also find Molly and Quinta’s article on the report on Lawfare.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.0 | That was one of the most revealing things to me is somebody who was very clearly closely |
| 0:37.9 | related to the FBI had sent an email to the now number two at the FBI in the immediate |
| 0:44.0 | wake of January 6th and said, listen, we've got a lot of folks who are sympathetic to the |
| 0:48.0 | legalistromic capital and that's certainly a component of this problem and I think also |
| 0:53.6 | helps explain why they were not as prepared as they they should have been. |
| 0:58.7 | It's certainly one of the factors I think political bias did play a role here and just you |
| 1:03.8 | know when you had a situation where there was so much focus on Antifa and Black Lives |
| 1:09.6 | Matter and obviously there were there's a lot of destruction and violence in 2020 but |
| 1:16.2 | I think politics undoubtedly played a role here in the end about why they were not prepared |
| 1:21.9 | for January 6th and not being able to see how quickly that Blue Lives Matter crowd would |
| 1:29.2 | flip on police who were doing their jobs on January 6th. |
| 1:33.2 | I'm Molly Reynolds, senior fellow at Brookings and senior editor of LawFair and this is |
| 1:38.3 | the LawFair podcast July 20th, 2023. |
| 1:42.9 | Last month the majority staff of the Senate rules and governmental affairs committee released |
| 1:47.3 | a report entitled, Plant and Plain Site, a review of the intelligence failures in advance |
| 1:52.1 | of January 6th, 2021 which explores one of the biggest remaining questions about that |
| 1:56.9 | day. |
| 1:57.9 | Why didn't the government see this coming? |
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