Steven Sund was giving evidence to Congress in the first public hearing over the deadly siege on 6 January.
The former US Capitol Police chief says he only found out this week that his officers were warned just hours before the 6 January riot that extremists could commit «war» in Washington that day. Steven Sund was giving evidence to Congress in the first public hearing over the last month’s siege that saw dozens of Donald Trump supporters storm the Capitol building to disrupt confirmation of his presidential election defeat to Joe Biden. The head of the FBI’s office in Washington has said that once he received the 5 January warning from the Virginia office, the information was quickly shared with other law enforcement agencies through the joint terrorism taskforce, including the Capitol Police.
