'Rather than presiding over an intelligence failure, they had actually actively enabled the insurrection to take place, with some among their ranks content to look the other way and ignore established protocols,' David Rothkopf writes.
on the Capitol and threats against members of Congress as part of plan to block the certification of votes. And nonetheless, they let the president’s speech go on. And they did not do much to prevent the attacks from happening. While some in the agency reported on the escalating dangers during the day of Jan. 6, others clearly chose to let events transpire. They were evenuntil shortly after the Capitol barricades were breached.
Meanwhile, the same story was true for the FBI, which had also garnered intelligence about the coup attempt but did not take all the measures available to stop it.showed that a large percentage of FBI agents were actually sympathetic to Trump and the MAGA crowd. Despite all this, two years after the mayhem of the event, FBI Director Christopher Wray has failed to undertake the investigation within his ranks that is clearly warranted.
Will these investigations ever take place? Should they not, the risk of a precedent is dangerous. The risk of sending a message that agents can ignore their oath with impunity to advance their political agendas is dangerous.
, but it is clear those won’t come if Republicans win in November. That means that as distasteful and divisive as investigations into these profound failures within our law enforcement system might be to institutionalists or leaders seeking to heal a broken government, the executive branch is going to have to police itself. This could include investigations by inspectors general or by the Department of Justice, or perhaps by an independent counsel.
What is clear, though, is that as important as it is to hold Trump and those who sought to steal the 2020 election accountable, our democracy will not be safe until we pierce the veil of secrecy surrounding the activities of our most elite law enforcement agencies at a moment of national peril they may have exacerbated.
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