I&A identified specific threat information related to the
events on January 6, 2021, but did not issue any
intelligence products about these threats until January 8,
2021. Open source collectors in I&A’s Current and
Emerging Threats Center collected open source threat
information but did not produce any actionable
information. This resulted from inexperienced open
source collectors who received inadequate training and
who did not fully consider I&A Guidelines for reporting
threat information. Collectors also described hesitancy
following scrutiny of I&A’s reporting in response to civil
unrest in the summer of 2020. Although an open source
collector submitted one product for review on January 5,
2021, I&A did not distribute the product until 2 days after
the events at the U.S. Capitol. Additionally, I&A’s
Counterterrorism Mission Center (CTMC) identified
indicators that the January 6, 2021 events might turn
violent but did not issue an intelligence product outside
I&A, even though it had done so for other events. Instead,
CTMC identified these threat indicators for an internal
I&A leadership briefing, only. Finally, the Field
Operations Division (FOD) considered issuing intelligence
products on at least three occasions prior to January 6,
2021, but FOD did not disseminate any such products
ultimately. It is unclear why FOD failed to disseminate
these products.