658 windows in the Capitol and almost all, except for about a dozen, were reinforced.

[panader0]

The insurrectionists knew which ones they could break to get in. Who told them?
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-04/jan-6-rioters-exploited-little-known-capitol-weak-spots-a-handful-of-unreinforced-windows

[uponit7771]

1. K&R,

[Scrivener7]

2. I am DYING to learn the answer to that question.

[brooklynite]

3. Flip it around: do you imagine Congresspeople know which windows are weak?

[panader0]

4. I imagine that some do.

Perhaps someone looking for a weakness to exploit.

[getagrip_already]

5. not everyone in the capitol are congress critters.....

Maybe it was the same people who disabled/removed panic buttons?

There may have even been a report issued on the progress of securing windows; kind of a work in progress status brief.

Anyway, lots of people in the building would know even which a/c units weren't working. It's a big place.

If you can by looking, then someone probably cased the place ahead of time. Otherwise it was an insider.

[MerryBlooms]

7. 💯

[Scrivener7]

10. Someone clearly prepped the place. This information is really a key.

[Scrivener7]

8. How is that flipping it around? The question is how did they know?

[Bev54]

19. I am thinking some staff or Capitol Police.

[Cozmo]

22. On J6, I watched Capitol police taking selfies with the insurrectionists

Can't get this picture out of my mind.

[Bev54]

24. Yes I saw that and a recent video I saw one outside, pulling aside the

bicycle fence over and waving them through, directing them. Who knows, also, the leanings of maintenance staff.

[SunSeeker]

26. Bingo. Inside job.

Those scumbag Capitol cops not only did not do their job, they violated their oaths to the Constitution, were traitors to their country, were co-conspirators to sedition and were accessories to the murder of their fellow police officers that day.

[Ferrets are Cool]

29. That has always bothered the HELL outta me

While their "brothers and sisters" were getting pummeled and knocked unconscious.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Officer Fanone said on CNN

He left his job at the Capitol. Some of his fellow officers were calling him a traitor, so it was thinking you're right. It was certain Capitol police.

[Lettuce Be]

32. That makes the most sense -- it seems unlikely congress folk know specifics but who knows?

There's still a lot we don't know but someone does know.

[IronLionZion]

21. Their staff might

and insurrectionists can inspect it on congress-guided tours. They could also have noticed which windows were upgraded in the last few years.

[Mr.Bill]

25. I imagine the Capitol Police did. n/t

[gldstwmn]

28. Maybe it was the Sargeant at Arms? He resigned the next day.

[fightforfreedom]

6. This is important.

Maybe the committee has the answer.

[rubbersole]

15. They have to...

...it's going to be exposed during the complicit congress member's hearing. All kinds of treasonous shit. Somebody is pooping 💩 their pants.

[MerryBlooms]

9. r&k

[hedda_foil]

11. There must have been an inside accomplice ... but probably not electeds or their staffs.

There was no possible reason that repuke senators, congress members of their staffs would have any idea that only a very few of the windows were not reinforced. The most likely suspects would seem to be on the staff of the Architect of the Capitol. It's possible that it was a contractor who knew which windows were skipped when the installation of reinforcements was done. It would have to be someone who had access to the documents or blueprints. Pink hat/bullhorn lady seemed to have inside info -- could she have been leaked the info or did she get it from a Proud Boy who was handed the info?

Presumably the FBI has the goods.

[roamer65]

12. I would bet on Greene or Boebert.

[Bev54]

20. I doubt that, both of them had just arrived as newbies.

[Hekate]

13. A bureaucracy runs the department(s) responsible for maintaining the buildings/infrastructure...

Back it up just a little. Who left those doors and windows unreinforced in the first place?

A bureaucracy runs the department(s) responsible for maintaining the buildings/infrastructure...

Bureaucracies run on paper (or electronic equivalent). There is an Architects division, count on it. There is a Congressional committee, count on it. There is probably a Commission, because of public interest. There are plans, blueprints, work-orders, and change-orders.

Every one of the entities has a list of employees, a list of members. They are public records. Find them. Find the plans. Find the work-orders, find the change-orders. Find the signatures.

There is most certainly a paper trail.

At this point we know there had to have been infiltrators. They can be found.

Hell’s bells, I know all this and I was only the Secretary to the County Public Works Director. My old boss would have been all over a scandal like this, and heads would have rolled. He did not suffer fools or their bullshit. RIP Chuck W, you were a public employee who gave me faith in the system.

[Nevilledog]

14. Republican take: Why didn't Dems reinforce ALL the windows?

[rubbersole]

16. It's Hillarys fault!!

[intheflow]

17. This quote may indicate an even longer coup plan:

The majority of the Capitol’s 658 single-pane windows were quietly upgraded during a 2017-19 renovation of the historic building. The original wooden frames and glass were covered with a second metal frame containing bomb-resistant glass.

But planners skipped about a dozen ground-floor windows, including some located in doors, because they were deemed to be low risk in the event of implosion, largely due to their discreet or shielded location, or because the building couldn’t structurally handle the load of the heavier frames.

Emphasis mine to note that these renovations happened on Trump's watch.

[GoCubsGo]

18. I wonder if they will tell us who ripped out the panic buttons in

Ayana Pressley's and others' offices. The same ones who told the insurrectionsts about the windows, no doubt.

[2naSalit]

23. Someone on a security cmte.

Could have access to the records of what was being done and where whether those vulnerabilities were planned or not. Also those on the cmte that oversees maintenance, perhaps others.

And then, there could be other staff who would have known too.

[DFW]

27. It was a small group of.........................

Oops, we are not allowed to say it out loud, but as a hint, they were Reeeeeeeeep-p-p-p-p-p-u-b-b-b-b-b-

nope, NOT allowed to say it out loud!

[Captain Zero]

31. What about Erik Prince's outfit,? Black Ops.

They could figure that out in pretty short order I would think.

Don Jr. Could have called him up on a back channel. Jr. Worked on back channel comms with Prince when they didn't want their Russian collusion discover.