"Perfect hindsight does not change the fact that nothing in our collective experience or our intelligence - including intelligence provided by FBI, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and D.C. Metropolitan Police (MPD) - indicated that a well-coordinated, armed assault on the Capitol might occur on Jan. 6," Sund wrote. The letter was first obtained by the NY Times.
This intelligence, given at least three days prior to the attack, indicates that the pre-planned riot could not have been "incited" by former President Trump's speech. Thus, impeachment claims to this point are moot and are fallacious cases of post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning, which means "after this, therefore because of this."
Sund's intelligence explicitly named violent left-wing extremist group Antifa as a "expected" to participate.
"Members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, Antifa, and other extremist groups were expected to participate in the Jan. 6 event and that they may be inclined to become violent," he wrote.
"Perfect hindsight does not change the fact that nothing in our collective experience or our intelligence - including intelligence provided by FBI, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and D.C. Metropolitan Police (MPD) - indicated that a well-coordinated, armed assault on the Capitol might occur on Jan. 6," Sund wrote. The letter was first obtained by the NY Times.
This intelligence, given at least three days prior to the attack, indicates that the pre-planned riot could not have been "incited" by former President Trump's speech. Thus, impeachment claims to this point are moot and are fallacious cases of post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning, which means "after this, therefore because of this."
Sund's intelligence explicitly named violent left-wing extremist group Antifa as a "expected" to participate.
"Members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, Antifa, and other extremist groups were expected to participate in the Jan. 6 event and that they may be inclined to become violent," he wrote.