A member of the Capitol Police talks with Supreme Court Police by members of the National Guard, as military personnel work by anti-scaling security fencing on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, in Washington.(AP) I m not concerned as a large part of our organisation, if you look at 25,000, we ve had 12 identified and some of those they are just looking into, it may be unrelated to this, but we want to make sure out of an abundance of caution as I stated earlier that we do the right thing until that gets cleared up.
The news comes as there are now approximately 25,000 National Guard troops on the ground in Washington, DC ahead of President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration.
Members of the Washington National Guard stand at a sundial near the Legislative Building, Sunday, January 10, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Washington.(AP)
The intelligence report warned that QAnon members and lone wolves indicated they plan to travel to Washington for Biden s swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday, the
Post said. But the intelligence briefing did not identify any specific plots to attack the inaugural events that would be similar to the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol, which some QAnon members participated in, the
Post said.
The FBI noted that it detected suspicious traffic on the communication systems used by some participants in the January 6 Capitol attack â but nothing that points to any specific action, according to the