{"id":164819,"date":"2021-02-23T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164819"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T20:43:35","slug":"capitol-riot-a-planned-coordinated-attack-security-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/capitol-riot-a-planned-coordinated-attack-security-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Riot A \u2018Planned,\u2019 \u2018Coordinated\u2019 Attack, Security Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcapitol-riot-a-planned-coordinated-attack-security-officials-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=164819&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capitol-Riot-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The January 6th riot at the United States Capitol was planned and coordinated \u2014 and not a spur-of-the-moment attack \u2014 law enforcement officials in charge of the response told Congress Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Several officials testified Tuesday at a Senate committee hearing dissecting the events leading up to the January 6th riot as well as the law enforcement response in an effort to outline how dozens of protesters were able to break through the Capitol\u2019s front doors and get within inches of working lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have been working with the theory that President Donald Trump, who appeared at a \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally the morning of January 6th, \u201cincited\u201d the crowd to march to the U.S. Capitol and disrupt a planned vote to certify the results of the Electoral College, making Joe Biden the official winner of the November presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger, former House Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Irving, and Metropolitan Police Department acting chief Robert Contee all testified that they witnessed incidents on January 6th that made it clear the attack was \u201cplanned\u201d and \u201ccoordinated\u201d days if not weeks ahead of January 6th.<\/p>\n<p>Sund even suggested that rioters had studied Capitol Police strategy and knew the building\u2019s weak points.<\/p>\n<p>These people came specifically with equipment. You\u2019re bringing climbing gear to a demonstration, explosives, chemical spray \u2013 you\u2019re coming prepared,\u201d Sund said. \u201cThe fact that the group attacked our West Front 20 minutes before the event at the Ellipse ended \u2013 they were planning on our agency not being at full strength at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there was a significant coordination with this attack,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Contee, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/capitol-riot-was-a-coordinated-attack-security-officials-testify-in-hearing\">Fox News adds<\/a>, \u201calso said rioters used \u2018hand signals and radio communication,\u2019 as well as a \u2018coordinated use\u2019 of chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly believe it was coordinated,\u201d Contee said. \u201cAs they continue to scrub social media, we are learning more and more and more that this is clearly a coordinated effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the information provided by Contee and Sund, I would agree,\u201d Irving agreed. \u201cThe evidence would indicate a coordinated attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sund noted that, because the attackers were so well-prepared, it would have been difficult for any security force to put a stop to the breach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo single civilian law enforcement agency \u2013 and certainly not the USCP \u2013 is trained and equipped to repel, without significant military or other law enforcement assistance, an insurrection of thousands of armed, violent, and coordinated individuals focused on breaching a building at all costs,\u201d Sund said.<\/p>\n<p>Contee went on to suggest that a pair of pipe bombs, one outside of the Democratic National Committee\u2019s headquarters and one outside of the Republican National Committee\u2019s headquarters, were designed to serve as distractions while rioters breached the Capitol doors. The FBI is still on the hunt for the bomber, nearly two months after the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI is still investigating the attacks and, on Tuesday, the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courier-journal.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2021\/02\/23\/us-capitol-riot-arrests-morganfield-kentucky-residents-charges\/4559280001\/\">announced that two rioters were arrested in Kentucky<\/a>. They also noted, last week, in a memo obtained by the Washington Post, that there was significant evidence that \u201cright-wing extremist\u201d groups were plotting to attack the United States Capitol for weeks ahead of the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally, and had coordinated on strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Although the officials who testified Tuesday agreed on the characteristics of the attack, they disagreed on which security force should take the blame for failing to protect federal lawmakers, including former Vice President Mike Pence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe officials, including the former chief of the Capitol Police, pointed their fingers at various federal agencies \u2014 and each other \u2014 for their failure to defend the building as supporters of then-President Donald Trump overwhelmed security barriers, broke windows and doors, and sent lawmakers fleeing from the House and Senate chambers. Five people died as a result of the riot, including a Capitol Police officer and a woman who was shot as she tried to enter the House chamber with lawmakers still inside,\u201d the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January 6th riot at the United States Capitol was planned and coordinated \u2014 and not a spur-of-the-moment attack \u2014 law enforcement officials in charge of the response told Congress &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274047,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capitol-Riot-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Capitol Riot A \u2018Planned,\u2019 \u2018Coordinated\u2019 Attack, Security Officials Say","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Capitol-Riot-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Capitol Riot A \u2018Planned,\u2019 \u2018Coordinated\u2019 Attack, Security Officials Say","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}