The Senate Rules and Administration Committee and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hold a joint oversight hearing on security failures during the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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https://www.c-span.org/video/?509061-1/joint-oversight-hearing-security-failures-attack-us-capitol&vod

The New York Times, February 23, 2021: "Three former top Capitol security officials and the chief of the Washington police blamed federal law enforcement and the Defense Department on Tuesday for intelligence failures ahead of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and for slow authorization of the National Guard as the violence escalated. " 'None of the intelligence we received predicted what actually occurred,' former Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund told senators who are investigating security failures related to the attack. He called the riot 'the worst attack on law enforcement and our democracy that I have seen' and said he witnessed insurrectionists assaulting officers not only with their fists but also with pipes, sticks, bats, metal barricades and flagpoles. 'These criminals came prepared for war,' Chief Sund said." 

Witnesses

• Melissa Smislova

  Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary

  Office of Intelligence and Analysis

  U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  Download Testimony (213 KB)
• Jill Sanborn

  Assistant Director, Counterterrorism Division

  Federal Bureau of Investigation

  U.S. Department of Justice
  Testimony-Sanborn-2021-03-03 (176.5 KB)
• Robert G. Salesses

  Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense and Global Security

  U.S. Department of Defense

   
  Testimony-Salesses-2021-03-03 (170.9 KB)
• Major General  William J. Walker, USA

  Commanding General

  District of Columbia National Guard

   
  Download Testimony (119.6 KB)