Storming Of The Capitol Building

[Bengalzona]

(01-12-2021, 08:39 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Here is my problem with what went down. They keep saying "we had no information that it would turn out like this." Meanwhile, all over the internet, right-wing extremists were talking openly about doing exactly what they did. To paraphrase someone from the ADL I heard yesterday, this was the most known about terrorist attack we've had in the post-9/11 country. ADL trawls the internet and dark web for this stuff and they were providing information to the feds days, if not weeks, ahead of this. It keeps being said that they refused help from other agencies and started off not in riot gear because they didn't have evidence it would turn violent. That's a lie, and it makes them look really bad.

I believe what you are discussing concerns those in charge and, possibly, inter-agency relationships, whereas I'm discussing the tactical situation on the ground. I believe you have some good points about the leadership situation and I think that will be brought to the forefront with Congressional investigations. But as for the "soldiers on the ground" that day, it seems to me that they generally did the best they could in a literal shitstorm they did not create.