Finger-pointing dominates hearing on Capitol riot Print this article Forty-eight days after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that forced lawmakers into hiding for hours, answers on reasons for security failures are starting to emerge — and people are pointing fingers. In a rare joint hearing with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Rules Committee, key law enforcement officials involved in responding to the attack painted a picture of poor intelligence, structural communication issues, and a lackluster response from Pentagon officials as driving reasons behind the botched response. Capitol Police "issued a daily intelligence report in which it assessed the potential for civil disobedience and arrests as ‘remote’ to ‘improbable,’” said former House sergeant-at-arms Paul Irving. Irving said that in a call with then-Senate sergeant-at-arms Michael Stenger and then-Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund, they "did discuss whether the intelligence warranted having troops at the Capitol, and our collective judgment at that time was no — the intelligence did not warrant that.”