The United States Secret Service Failed To Prepare for Insurrection Day

<p>This volume reprints 850 pages of threat analysis and evaluation documents prepared by the United States Secret Service <span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Protective Intelligence & Assessment Division </span>prior to the January 6 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol. The documents were requested by Bloomberg News under the Freedom of Information Act. This contemporaneous work product provides a direct view into one of the most consequential crowd control failures ever. </p><p><br></p><p>Even to a naive reader certain patterns emerge. Analysts relied heavily and likely excessively on Facebook for bottom-up estimates of attendance. The analysis protocol was often focused on whether particular demonstrators and demonstrations had the potential for civil disobedience rather than on assessing the overall potential for large-scale violence of the event as a whole. Ah for the days when mere civil disobedience was the threshold of concern!</p><p><br></p><p>An AI-created page-by-page summary is provided in the front matter as an aid to the reader. If you want to understand what happened on January 6 2021 this is an essential reference.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>