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23 planned prior to the request for National Guard by Mayor Bowser?

I believe, from my memory, the best I can recall, is that it had come in to the Department in some format, the Department of Defense. And there was we analyzed, as we routinely do, security assistance we could provide. So that's what probably generated it, is my guess, is Mayor Bowser's office or the Capitol Police called the—someone at the Department of Defense.

And, if it relates to the National Guard, the way the chain of command works is, the National Guard reports to the Secretary of the Army; then he reports into the Office of Secretary of Defense. So, probably in DOD land where you have 3 million people working, someone in the Sec Army's office probably got notified by Mayor Bowser on or before December 31st, and around there it came up to us in the Office of Secretary of Defense, but there could have been a delay. I don't know.

What was your understanding of the threat landscape going into January 6th?

My understanding of the threat landscape going into January 6th, without having really viewed any of that intelligence, and I caveat that the DOD did not have the intelligence capabilities or lawfully permitted to collect on domestic citizens. So we relied on partners in law enforcement, the FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Postal Service, and others to provide us, as we always do, interagency meetings at medium and senior levels. And I believe there may have been an exchange at those levels of the threat or possible threats of violence.

We had instructed, I believe—Acting Secretary Miller and I had instructed our team to, as we do with other matters, highlight significant issues, especially in security, for anything, be it the Inauguration or Jan. 6th and bring it up to our attention through the chain of command, which was the process.