On Sunday, former Vice President Mike Pence denounced the debunked conspiracy theory that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was responsible for instigating the January 6, 2021 attack or “insurrection”.
Ex-US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit to keep records leading up to the insurrection secret. The January 6 committee in Congress is investigating the Capitol siege and individuals who organized it.
Testifying publicly for the first time about the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former security officials say that bad intelligence was to blame for the disastrous failure to anticipate the violent intentions of the mob.