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69 Donuts and the like were boarded up. Why they were boarded up I'm not sure. Maybe they saw something.

But I believe that there was reason, that I did not see at that time, that a security posture of intelligence should have been provided by law enforcement. I just don't recall that we were provided with one when we were in the Department of Defense.

So that's your big-picture criticism, that you at the DOD did not have an accurate threat landscape going into January 6th? I don't want to put words in your mouth, but it sounds like that's what you're saying.

I don't believe we had much of anything, if I remember correctly, in terms of intel from law enforcement.

Okay. And is that one of your criticisms of preparation, just in your experience, looking back?

Yes. If there was—that's a great question. If there was intel, we would've wanted it. And if intel came out later that they did, in fact, have intel related to January 6th and it wasn't provided to us, of course that's going to be one of my criticisms—I would hope it'd be one of your criticisms—to share with the interagency to prepare properly.

Exactly. That's the basis of the question.

So—but, in terms of what you knew, you, Kash Patel, and DOD officials going into it, the criticism that you have is, we were unaware of what threat there could be?

Yes. As best as we could tell, we were not provided with threat information from law enforcement that I can recall at this time.

There's a couple of the timeline discrepancies going into it, and I want to just talk briefly about the DOD timeline that—putting yours aside—exhibit 46 was the January 5th or 6th timeline, I believe.