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The Justice Department's Inspector General has released a long away to report on the FBI's

intelligence collection efforts ahead of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The watchdog finding the FBI recognized the potential for violence that day, but they'll

to take a basic step that could have helped law enforcement prepare.

Here's MPR's Ryan Lucas.

The report found that the FBI worked to identify domestic extremists who planned to travel

to Washington, D.C. for the events of January 6th.

But the Inspector General determined that the Bureau failed to canvass its field offices for

intelligence about potential threats to the electoral certification. The Bureau's deputy director

called that, quote, a basic step that was missed. The report also says that no FBI undercover

employees were in the protest crowd or at the Capitol that day, but 26 FBI informants were.

None of them were authorized to break the law, the watchdog says, although four of the informants

did enter the Capitol with the rioters.

Ryan Lucas and Pierre News, Washington.

President Joe Biden today commuted the sentences of around 1,500 people.

The White House saying the commutations were those released from

prison and placed in home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biden also pardoned 39 people

convicted of nonviolent crimes. The White House says it's the largest single day of clemency in

modern history. Biden recently granted a blanket pardon to his son Hunter Biden,

who was prosecuted for tax and gun crimes. In Urbana, Missouri family and friends of Travis Timmerman

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