Senate investigation argues FBI, DHS officials "downplayed" or failed to properly share warnings of violence on Jan. 6
CBSMAY 2023
The Spin
Democratic narrative
It’s unthinkable that the same agencies that overstepped their bounds when collecting data on those protesting against police violence against Black people in 2020 and overreacted to those protests, failed to connect the dots in advance of the Jan. 6 riots. Clearly, these agencies are biased and must be reformed moving forward.
Republican narrative
We need to get to the bottom of why the protests at the US Capitol got out of hand on Jan. 6, but the Democrat-dominated House Jan. 6 committee, and now this Democrat-authored Senate report, are too partisan to be taken as gospel. There must be an investigation by an independent third party to make sure criticism lands in the right place and the American people learn the truth versus the hyper-politicized Democratic narrative.