What to expect from the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol
March 10, 2021 / 6:00 AM
/ CBS News
This week on
Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell interviews Robert Pape, international security affairs expert and political science professor at the University of Chicago. Pape is also the director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, where he leads a team producing new research on the insurrection at the Capitol in January. Pape discusses the historic nature of the storming of the Capitol.
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"Suddenly, we're in a very different category": "Since the War of 1812, the U.S. Capitol has not been attacked. If we look from World War II on, in modern democracies, of course, the U.S. Capitol has never been attacked. But the British parliament has never been attacked, the German Bundestag has never been attacked, the French parliament has never been attacked. The Israeli Knesset was attacked with something like a mob, a smaller mob in 1952. If we look at the democracies that have had their parliaments attacked Sri Lanka, 1987, Russia 1993, India 2001, Chechnya 2010, Venezuela 2017. So, suddenly we're in a very different category."