The January 6th Insurrection: Investigation, Answers, and Accountability

On October 12, CREW received records back from the Secret Service, which included warnings from local police that attendees were being told to “come armed,” but also said that there was no credible threat. Click to read.

On September 20, CREW received records back from the Army, which included a January 6 email from DHS to the Pentagon, sent more than 30 minutes after the first attackers breached the Capitol, indicating “there are no major incidents of illegal activity at this time.” Click to read.

On September 17, CREW received documents back from the National Guard. Click to read.

On September 2, CREW received hours of Park Police audio recordings from January 6th. You can listen to them here, here, and here. See September 30 post for a full writeup.

On August 31, CREW received documents back from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, which includes a memo that restricted the use of open-source intelligence about “election-related threats”, written by Joseph Maher, who is now on the staff of the January 6 House Select Committee. Click to read.

On August 12, CREW received documents back from the Secret Service. Click to read.

On July 30, CREW received documents back from the Park Police. See August 10 post for a full writeup. Click to read.

On July 30, CREW received documents back from the Army. Click to read.

On July 30, CREW received documents back from the Secret Service. The documents include a specific threat of violence on January 6th, and includes screengrabs of relevant Facebook posts, as well as threatening Parler posts. Click to read.

On July 29, CREW and a coalition of watchdog groups sent a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the Select Committee, outlining questions the committee should seek to answer in the course of the investigation, including what type of coordination there was between the White House and groups planning “stop the steal” rallies, who funded and coordinated the “stop the steal” rallies leading up to and on January 6th, and whether any foreign actors played a role in the events leading up to the insurrection. Click to read the letter.

On June 30, CREW received documents back from the Secret Service. See July 15 post for full writeup. Click to read.

On March 3, CREW received documents back from DHS’s Federal Protective Services. See March 3 post for full writeup. Click to read.