A day before the riots, the FBI alerted that a “war” was planned.

EFE.- An internal report from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of U.S alerted a day before riot at the Capitol that a group of extremists was preparing to launch a “war” in Washington D.C. and commit violent acts against Congress, revealed this Tuesday The Washington Post.

The information contradicts the statements of the head of the Washington office of the FBISteven D’Antuono, who told reporters on Friday that the agency had “no indication” that there was anything planned for January 6, other than protests by the president’s supporters Donald Trump.

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However, the office of the FBI in nearby Norfolk (Virginia) it had alerted, in a report approved for internal publication on January 5, of plans by extremists who had shared a map of the Capitol tunnels and had mentioned specific threats against that complex.

“As of January 5, 2021, the FBI in Norfolk has received information indicating that there are calls to violence (…) that will begin on January 6, 2021 in Washington D.C.“Says the document, obtained by the Post.

“A thread posted on the internet mentions specific calls for violence that include this: ‘Be prepared to fight. He Congress he has to listen to glass breaking, doors kicking open and blood spilling from his BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers, ”he adds.

The acronym BLM is a reference to the anti-racism activists of “Black Lives Matter,” while “Pantifa” is a derogatory allusion to the left-wing Antifa movement, whose members sometimes take on right-wing extremists who defend Trump.

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“Be violent. Stop calling this a rally, or a protest. Go there prepared for war. We get our president or we die. NOTHING else will make us achieve this goal ”, adds the message quoted in the FBI report.

That information was shared that same day – Jan.5 – with FBI agents at the Washington office, according to an agency official quoted by the Washington Post.

The revelation is yet another example of the major mistakes that were made in preventing the attack on the Capitol, which resulted in five deaths, including a police officer, and raises questions about why the authorities did not act if they had that information even at the level. federal.

He report cited by Post stressed that the FBI did not know the identity of those who made the threats of violence on the Internet, and asked the agencies with which the material was shared not to act on that intelligence information, which was not “definitive”, without first consulting with the federal police.

Both the FBI and the Capitol Police and those responsible for security in Congress avoided taking seriously the indications on social networks about possible violence in the facilities that day, in which the legislators met to ratify the victory of the president-elect , Joe Biden.

The situation has changed since the attack, and this Monday the FBI warned in an internal bulletin about the threat of “armed protests” throughout the country since Saturday, of an “uprising” at the national level and of a new attempt to assault the Capitol from Sunday until Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday of next week.

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