Capitol Police official told Congress he had seen no FBI intelligence before the Jan.6 siege

The acting deputy chief of the Capitol Police told Congress on Tuesday that he was not aware of any FBI intelligence until Jan.6, raising questions about a claim by a senior FBI official that information about the threats had been shared in advance with local police. of the Capitol riot.

Steven D’Antuono, head of the FBI’s field office in Washington, DC, said on Tuesday that the FBI shared information about threats of violence with local police ahead of the January 6 assault on the Capitol, including a report from the FBI field. office in Norfolk, Va., that extremists threatened a “war.”

The report mentions people sharing a map of the tunnels at the Capitol complex and coordinating trips to Washington, according to the Washington Post, which first reported on the FBI document.

But a reading of a closed-door briefing by members of the Republican House on Tuesday, obtained by NBC News, quotes Acting U.S. Capitol Police Deputy Chief Sean Gallagher as saying he has never seen such information.

“In response to a question, Deputy Chief Gallagher also informed members that he was not aware of FBI intelligence until Jan. 6,” the document reads.

Separately, Steven Sund, who has resigned his post as Capitol Police Chief of Police, told the Washington Post on Tuesday that he had never received or been made aware of the intelligence from the Norfolk field office, insisting the fact that he and others would have taken the warning seriously if it had been shared.

“I didn’t have that information, and that information wasn’t factored into our security planning either,” said Sund.

The FBI’s Washington field office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. No more than a spokesperson for the Capitol police.

Remarks from current and former members of the Capitol Police underline the lack of clarity on what intelligence different levels of government had and what was shared prior to one of the worst incidents of extremist political violence in state history -United.

NBC News reported on Sunday that according to law enforcement sources briefed on the matter, the FBI and NYPD had shared information about the threats with Capitol Police in the days leading up to the riot.

But NBC News also reported on Tuesday that the FBI failed to release a comprehensive intelligence bulletin sharing everything its intelligence analysts gathered on extremist social media posts threatening violence. This did not happen because some FBI officials were concerned that the publication of such a bulletin would undermine First Amendment protections for political speech – a view that not everyone in the FBI is. disagree, sources familiar with the matter said.