The FBI warned Congress about 'domestic terrorism.' Why didn't anyone listen?
The Senate, like the House, can’t plead ignorance to the growing dangers of domestic terrorism.
Recent reporting raises the specter of an inside job when it comes to violent domestic terrorists. Anjali Nair / MSNBC; Getty Images
Jan. 21, 2021, 6:35 PM UTC / Updated Jan. 21, 2021, 6:41 PM UTC
The finger-pointing started even before the violent rioters could be cleared from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The Capitol Police, the FBI and the departments of Defense and Homeland Security have been cited separately and collectively as potentially culpable for failing either to see the intelligence pointing to the assault on democracy and/or to act on what they should have known was coming.