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Ten days after the assault on Capitol Hill by supporters of Donald Trump, internal investigations were opened within several US ministries, including those of Justice and Defense, to assess their preparation and response, their inspectors announced. generals this Friday.

These investigations must determine how the information arrived, how it circulated between the various federal agencies responsible for maintaining order, and their reactions on D-Day, they said in press releases.

Conflicts between the different entities involved?

The inspectors general - senior officials responsible for tracking down abuses and dysfunctions within the ministries to which they are assigned - from the ministries of defense, justice, internal security and the interior have indicated that they will " coordinate ”their investigations.

Law enforcement has been widely criticized since the attack on the seat of Congress on January 6 by supporters of Donald Trump, who were able to easily enter his compound and wreak havoc there for several hours before moving on. be dislodged from it.

Federal police, Capitol police, municipal police, National Guard, Parks police ... Several entities are implicated.

The questions relate in particular to the existence of information that the FBI would not have circulated to its partners, and to the slowness with which the Pentagon deployed the soldiers of the National Guard.

Resignation of the Capitol Police Chief

The Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, clarified that he would seek to determine if "the protocols, policies and procedures in force" in this ministry which supervises the FBI "had affected the capacity of its agencies to prepare and respond effectively ”to these events.

His Defense counterpart will seek to establish what had been requested of the Pentagon and how it responded to it.

The resigned Capitol Police chief accused a senior official of ignoring his calls for reinforcements within minutes of the invasion.

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