FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate told investigators that not canvassing the nation for further information was the 'basic step that was missed.'
A new report by the Justice Department inspector general found that the FBI failed to commission the dozens of FBI field offices across the country to gather information from its own confidential human sources ahead of the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, despite telling Congress that it had done so. Had the FBI's field office canvassed those sources, it 'could have helped the FBI and its law enforcement partners with their preparations in advance of January 6,' the report said.
Capitol Police — not the FBI — led law enforcement efforts to protect the Electoral College certification that day, while other agencies provided support. On the eve of the riot, the FBI's field office in Norfolk, Virginia, issued a raw intelligence report warning of an anonymous social media thread threatening violence at the Capitol, CBS News previously reported. But, according to Capitol Police officials, that information was never shared with their agency.
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