NBC News reports, "FBI Director
Christopher Wray shed little new light Tuesday about whether his intelligence analysts missed warning signs before the riot at the U.S. Capitol — and how the bureau plans to confront the rising threat of domestic terrorism.
"We need to get better at collecting, obviously," was as close as Wray came to commenting on the FBI's intelligence gathering on domestic terrorism."
Wray shouldn't be too hard on himself, and Senators should be cognizant of the fact that there is a significance difference between intelligence and information. Intelligence is acted upon. Information awaits develops so that it becomes intelligence and it can be acted upon.
Right wing terrorist groups supporting Trump -- as in the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Qanon -- are always chatting about how they are going to make war, shoot people, and blow things up. That's what makes them terrorist groups. The fact that law enforcement did not act immediately on information is perfectly understandable.
And no one guessed that the President of the United States was going to give a rah-rah speech urging the domestic terrorists to
“fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
NBC continued, "Wray, who took office in 2017, said he has boosted the FBI's focus on domestic violent extremism, and that the number of total domestic terrorism cases has risen from around 1,000 two years ago to 2,000 now. He did not address how that compares to the FBI's international terrorism caseload.
"In the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, Wray said, the FBI was tracking "a large amount of
information" about the potential for violence. But he didn't explain what the FBI did with that
information.
Wray made it abundantly clear in his testimony that the Trump supporters who attacked our capitol were domestic terrorists.
USA Today reports, "We have been worried that [pro-Trump] domestic violent extremists would react, not only to the results of an election that they may not see as favorable but the transition of a government that they may question," a senior federal official said.