WaPo released an in-depth report about the before, during, and after of January 6 and it's worth a read if you're at all interested in the myriad failures before and ongoing. It's a very long piece however, and stretches back months before January 6 to show the build-up.
He organized an unusual call for all of the nation's regional homeland security offices -- known as fusion centers -- to find out what others were seeing. Sena expected a couple dozen people to get on the line that Monday. But then the number of callers hit 100. Then 200. Then nearly 300. Officials from nearly all 80 regions, from New York to Guam, logged on.
In the 20 years since the country had created fusion centers in response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Sena couldn't remember a moment like this. For the first time, from coast to coast, the centers were blinking red. The hour, date, and location of concern was the same: 1 p.m., the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 6.
Harvin asked his counterparts to share what they were seeing. Within minutes, an avalanche of new tips began streaming in. Self-styled militias and other extremist groups in the Northeast were circulating radio frequencies to use near the Capitol. In the Midwest, men with violent criminal histories were discussing plans to travel to Washington with weapons.
Forty-eight hours before the attack, Harvin began pressing every alarm button he could. He invited the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, military intelligence services and other agencies to see the information in real time as his team collected it. He took another extreme step: He asked the city's health department to convene a call of D.C.-area hospitals and urged them to prepare for a mass casualty event. Empty your emergency rooms, he said, and stock up your blood banks.
Washington Post reports...
Several state legislatures passed bills granting new powers to partisan actors to challenge ballot counting and making it easier for the party in power to replace local election officials. The measures seemed built for a future when rejecting election results could be routine -- and raised the prospect that partisan loyalists, rather than county professionals, could become arbiters of election disputes.
By the end of September 2021, GOP lawmakers around the country would introduce more than 400 bills restricting voting access -- and would pass 33 laws in 19 states.
And Republicans lining up to run for office were echoing Trump's false claims that he won the 2020 election. By the end of summer, nearly a third of the 390 GOP candidates who had expressed interest in running for statewide office publicly supported a partisan audit, downplayed the Jan. 6 attack or directly questioned Biden's victory, according to a tally by The Post. Among them: 10 candidates running for secretary of state, a position with sway over elections in many states.
It was an overwhelming signal of Trump's hold on the GOP.
And a whole lot more from a wide variety of viewpoints and agencies from 200+ days before to 200+ days after.
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