Former Capitol Police Chief Claims Jan. 6 Committee Overlooked Security Failures and Trump's Rebuffed Efforts to Boost Defenses
• Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund said the Jan. 6 committee only interviewed him once in a 6-hour Zoom call. He said they seemed uninterested in institutional failures or leadership blame.
• Sund said he desperately asked for National Guard support during the riot, but encountered resistance over "optics" concerns. Meanwhile, generals' homes were receiving security.
• Sund corroborates reports that Trump wanted 10,000 National Guardsmen to secure the Capitol pre-Jan. 6, but was frustrated by slow Pentagon deployment.
• Cheney organized an op-ed by former defense secretaries discouraging military involvement pre-Jan. 6. The committee concealed testimony about Trump's security demands.
• Sund said the FBI and DHS had intelligence about plans to attack the Capitol and kill police/Congress members that Capitol Police never received.