January 6 Capitol Security Intelligence Failure Intentionally Created Chaotic Conditions That Disrupted Objection Process (US)

[Reasonable Inference – Intentionality unresolved] The U.S. Capitol Police Intelligence and Interagency Coordination Division (IICD) possessed specific intelligence about plans to target the Capitol on January 6 but failed to incorporate that intelligence into formal security assessments – rating the likelihood of civil disobedience as “Remote” or “Improbable” in reports issued January 4-6, 2021. The resulting security breakdown cut short the objection proceedings before all state objections had been fully deliberated and provided the political context for subsequent prosecutions of the President and others that further foreclosed the legal debate. Whether the intelligence failures were the result of institutional negligence or deliberate suppression of threat assessments that, if acted upon, would have prevented the security breach and preserved the full objection proceeding, is a material unresolved question.