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Intelligence lapses blamed for deadly Capitol riot
BY MIKE DEBONIS AND KAROUN
DEMIRJIAN
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Top of-
ficials responsible for security
at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as it was
overrun by a mob backing Pres-
ident Donald Trump blamed
wide-ranging intelligence fail-
ures for the deadly attack at a
Senate hearing Tuesday.
They pointed to lapses that
included a missed email warn-
ing of violence and a larger in-
ability to recognize the threat
posed by domestic right-wing
extremism.
Three officials who have re-
signed — Capitol Police Chief
Steven Sund, House sergeant-
Risk
at-arms Paul Irving and Sen-
ate sergeant-at-arms Michael
Stenger — each sought to min-
imize their responsibility for
the events on that violent and
chaotic day, which resulted in
the deaths of a Capitol Police
officer and four others and
temporarily delayed the con-
gressional certification of Pres-
ident Biden’s victory.
They each, to varying degrees,
detailed how they were caught
off-guard by the scale and fe-
rocity of the pro-Trump crowd,
which escalated from a relatively
peaceful protest to a violent mob
in a span of hours while security
officials scrambled — and ulti-
mately failed — to respond.
“None of the intelligence we
received predicted what actu-
ally occurred,” Sund said at the
hearing. “We properly planned
for a mass demonstration with
possible violence. What we
got was a military-style, coor-
dinated assault on my officers
and a violent takeover of the
Capitol building.”
Several efforts are under-
way to determine what went
wrong on the day the rioters
stormed the Capitol, the most
serious breach of the building
since British troops burned
it in 1814. Federal prosecu-
tors have filed cases against
rioters, the Government Ac-
countability Office is probing
security preparations, and top
congressional leaders continue
to discuss creating an outside
commission to investigate the
attack, one modeled on the bi-
partisan 9/11 Commission.
But the investigations un-
derway by congressional com-
mittees are likely to provide
the most immediate trans-
parency. They are being con-
ducted by the targets of the
attack, lawmakers who gath-
ered on Jan. 6 to provide final
certification of the November
presidential election only to
find themselves under siege by
pro-Trump rioters — in some
cases, just seconds from poten-
tial captivity, injury or worse.
County risk levels that go into effect Friday
Continued from A1
Ranking is determined by
measures including total cases,
cases per 100,000 people and
positive infection rate. The
higher the level, the more re-
strictive the rules on businesses
and activities.
The levels are adjusted ev-
ery two weeks. The ratings an-
nounced Feb. 9 expire Thurs-
day. The new ratings go into
effect Friday. Announcement
of the next level changes will be
March 9 and will go into effect
March 12.
Wasco County, made the
jump all the way from the
worst level, extreme risk, to the
best level, lower risk.
Some of the state’s most pop-
ulous counties improved their
level, though Portland just
missed the mark.
Washington and Clacka-
mas counties near Portland
moved from high to moderate
risk. Neighboring Multnomah
County, which includes Port-
land, was just above the cutoff
point for cases per 100,000.
Major counties moving off
the extreme-risk level list to
high-risk level include Uma-
tilla, Lane, Marion, Jackson
and Linn.
Three counties saw their risk
Gun
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“Everyone wants safe com-
munities, but you are targeting
the wrong people in this bill.”
Multnomah County Com-
missioner Sharon Meieran, an
emergency room physician
and a public health advocate,
supported the legislation, say-
ing it could help create a “sense
of welcome and safety” for
public officials. “As an ER doc-
tor, I have seen the devastating
results of gun violence first-
hand,” she told the commit-
tee. “As a Multnomah County
commissioner, I feel vulnera-
ble as a publicly visible elected
official in a climate of rising
anti-democratic extremism,
and as a mom I talk with my
kids regularly about their pro-
found fears arising from school
shootings across the country.
“As an elected official, I be-
lieve it is incumbent upon me
and my colleagues to welcome
the public and maintain the
openness and transparency
that’s foundational to our pub-
lic process. For me, a sense of
welcome and safety hinges on
maintaining a building that is
gun-free.”
Washington County Com-
missioner Nafisa Fai, a Somali
immigrant who saw gun vio-
lence as a child in her native
land, supported the bill. “I
want everyone to feel safe in
our county buildings and in
public buildings,” she told the
committee. “The only way to
achieve this is by only arming
law enforcement officials.”
A ‘back-door repeal’
In Oregon, 276,327 people
have valid concealed handgun
licenses. To get a concealed
handgun license, people must
be 21, a U.S. citizen who has
completed a gun safety course
and able to pass a background
check.
Many of the people who
testified online, or submitted
written testimony, told the
Senate committee that people
who went through the con-
cealed handgun license process
committed few gun violence
crimes.
Martin J. Claxton of Port-
LOWER RISK (10)
• Baker
• Clatsop (Moved from
High)
• Gilliam
• Grant
• Lincoln (Moved from
High)
• Sherman
• Tillamook
• Wallowa
• Wasco (Moved from
Extreme)
• Wheeler
MODERATE RISK
(10)
• Clackamas (Moved
from High)
• Curry (Moved from
Lower)
• Harney (Moved from
Lower)
• Hood River (Moved
from High)
• Lake
• Linn (Moved from
High)
• Malheur (Moved from
Extreme)
• Morrow
• Union (Moved from
Extreme)
• Washington (Moved
from High)
HIGH RISK (11)
• Columbia
• Crook (Moved from
Extreme)
• Deschutes
• Jackson (Moved from
Extreme)
• Klamath
• Lane (Moved from Ex-
treme)
levels increase due to rising in-
fections. Douglas County, the
state’s ninth most populous
county, rose from high to ex-
treme risk. Harney and Curry
counties moved from lower to
moderate risk. All three will
have to reinstitute restrictions
for a minimum of two weeks.
The highest infection rate
was reported in sparsely popu-
lated Lake County, with 30.4%
of tests coming back positive
for COVID-19.
The Oregon Health Author-
ity announced last week that it
had mistakenly included infec-
tions from the Warner Creek
Correctional Facility in the Lake
County total, which is against
state policy. The numbers were
later revised. Lake County re-
mains at a moderate risk level.
The risk levels are part of
a spate of good news on the
COVID-19 front.
Case have dropped 44% na-
tionwide over the past 14 days,
according to the New York
Times survey of state health
agencies. Deaths are down 28%
in the same period.
Oregon was part of the
trend, with a 34% drop in cases
land said he opposed the bill
because it could create confu-
sion about where legally per-
mitted guns would be allowed.
“What it does is criminalize
a group of gun owners who
possess (concealed handgun
licenses),” Claxton wrote. “Do
we really want to turn into a
felon somebody, say a parent
who might be picking up, or
dropping off their child at a
school, or an individual drop-
ping off or picking up a friend
or family member at an air-
port?”
Rodney J. Tombleson of
Prineville wrote that the pro-
posed bill was “intolerable
and insufferable.” “This pro-
posal makes it so impractical
to follow the law as to render
the right to bear arms null,” he
wrote.
Former law enforcement of-
ficer Gerald Boyd of Prineville
opposed the bill, telling the
committee that it “will do ab-
solutely nothing to deter crimi-
nals, who defy laws and are in-
eligible to possess a concealed
handgun license, from carry-
ing a weapon in the places in-
cluded in this bill.”
“What you will do, if you
pass this proposed legislation,
will amount only to a ‘feel
good’ effort when, in reality, it
will accomplish nothing other
than to deprive law abiding cit-
izens of their rights under the
second amendment of the U.S.
Constitution,” Boyd wrote.
Members of the Gun Own-
ers Caucus of the Democratic
Party of Oregon opposed the
legislation because they said
it created too much confu-
sion for gun owners. Michael
Smith, chairman of the caucus,
told the committee that the
bill’s “maze of no-carry-zones”
would “criminalize” carrying
firearms. Smith argued instead
for a more limited bill forbid-
ding firearms on state Capitol
grounds.
Bend grandmother Heather
McNeil supported the bill, tell-
ing the committee that guns
shouldn’t be allowed in public
buildings because of the recent
political upheaval. “Given the
recent terrifying events at both
the federal Capitol and our
state Capitol, the option to ban
concealed carry of weapons
is crucial,” McNeil wrote. “Al-
lowing loaded concealed guns
everywhere puts us at unneces-
sary risk.”
Stephen Poss of Sisters called
the legislation a “back-door
repeal” of concealed hand-
gun licenses. “Hunters picking
up their sons or daughters at
Redmond Airport, or other
airports, in order to go hunt-
ing will become felons,” Poss
wrote.
William Garland of
Prineville called the bill “a dra-
conian solution to a non-ex-
istent problem.” “Only the
law-abiding and responsible
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• Marion (Moved from
Extreme)
• Multnomah
• Polk (Moved from Ex-
treme)
• Umatilla (Moved from
Extreme)
• Yamhill (Moved from
Extreme)
EXTREME RISK (5)
• Benton
• Coos
• Douglas (Moved from
High)
• Jefferson
• Josephine
and a 54% decline in deaths.
Oregon continues to rank
49th out of 50 states on a key
measure that averages cases
over seven days and adjusts
the number for infections per
100,000 people.
Oregon has 9 cases per
100,000. Only Hawaii, with
three, had a lower mark.
Among Oregon’s neighbors,
Washington and Nevada each
had 11. California was at 17.
The worst rates were in South
Carolina at 46 and New York
at 38.
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will suffer the impact of SB
554,” Garland wrote. “SB 554
will create a patchwork of pro-
hibited zones around the state.
Well-intentioned citizens will
unknowingly violate this pro-
posed law.”
Former Redmond firearms
dealer Ray Lackey said the bill
would “nullify Oregon’s con-
cealed carry law.” “SB 554 is
arbitrary and creates an illog-
ical basis whereby an individ-
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