The piece even begins with Harvin: The head of intelligence at D.C.'s homeland security office was growing desperate.
Forty-eight hours before the attack, Harvin began pressing every alarm button he could.
After learning the hour of concern and the location of concern, we now learn that the intensity of Donelll Harvin's concern was such that he purportedly asked DC hospitals to prepare for a "Mass casualty event" and to "Stock up your blood banks." Remarkable indeed.
Already, the Washington Post piece represents a very different version of events than that of FBI Director Christopher Wray, who told Amy Klobuchar that officials were simply caught off guard on January 6th. The Washington Post's red flag piece highlights figures like Donell Harvin as a means of criticizing the ostensible incompetence and ignorance of federal agencies that should have taken more active steps to prevent January 6 from unfolding as it did.
In the section of the piece meant to chronicle agency preparation 16 days and fewer before January 6th, the post reveals that Harvin was analyzing a number of protests throughout the country, and for whatever reason, he assigned the task of analyzing January 6th to his most junior analyst.
One wonders: if Donell Harvin thought January 6 was going to be a mass casualty event requiring stocking up of blood banks, why would he casually assign the threat analysis of that day to his most junior analyst? But wait, there's more! What follows is one of the most remarkable revelations in all of January 6 reporting: By the time Harvin called a major planning meeting on Dec. 30, the young analyst was ready to present a worst-case scenario: Someone could plant an improvised explosive device near the Capitol, he said.
The official called Donell Harvin, who said the bomb squads were responding to the suspicious package reported near the RNC building.
Harvin is presented as the wise national security expert who predicted January 6th all along and gets to say "I told you so" to the FBI and other agencies that we are led to believe were simply caught off guard on January 6th. As it turns out, Donell Harvin, a minority who worked for a municipal intelligence agency, was right all along, and if the bungling bigwigs in the federal agencies had just listened to him, our nation would have been spared the worst insurrection in history.
Harvin leans into his role as the predictive expert, noting how "Unfortunate" it was that he, as a local D.C. intelligence official, knew that January 6th posed a threat, yet his "Federal parters" weren't ready.
What's utterly bizarre about this whole interview elevating Harvin as this predictive expert is that both Harvin and the newscasters neglect to mention the single most remarkable January 6th prediction of all time, and that is the aforementioned pipe bomb prediction that came out of Harvin's office from this mystery analyst.
Perhaps the CBS segment's failure to mention the pipe bomb prediction out of Harvin's office is just a one-off.
Yet here's another interview with the same theme-touting the predictive skills of Harvin and his DC Fusion Center office-that also curiously neglects the fact that Harvin's office reportedly made the most strikingly accurate January 6th prediction in existence.
The segment again celebrates the remarkable January 6 predictions of Harvin and his office, and there is not a peep from Harvin or the interviewer about the most remarkable prediction of all.
Strange! So we see that the single most striking prediction concerning January 6, a prediction made by a mysterious and unnamed "Junior analyst" in Harvin's office, is somehow equally and mysteriously forgotten and unmentioned even in Harvin's media blitz, the purpose of which is to highlight the predictive powers of Harvin and his office as opposed to those of federal agencies such as the FBI. This is, of course, not the only bizarre omission against interest associated with the January 6 pipe bombs.
In one remarkable piece for Politico, Harvin goes so far as to assert that Trump "Poses a significant threat to homeland security!" Don't believe it? Read it for yourself: Federal intelligence and national security agencies - from the FBI to DHS - are in universal agreement that domestic extremism and terrorism is the leading threat to the U.S. homeland.
" Harvin goes on to elaborate that Trump not only poses a threat to national security, but he is the "greatest threat to our nation"-he's even more of a threat than China! Trump's willingness to fan the worst flames of discord and division is why, in my assessment, he is currently the greatest threat to our nation.
Here's Harvin wishing that Steve Bannon is sent to prison.
Yuck! Before we return to the pipe bomb case, another important dimension of Harvin's politics must be exposed.
Harvin later promoted a RAND study report on the threat of online extremism titled "extremist use of online spaces": As it so happens, there is another individual with a remarkable connection to the January 6 pipe bombs who now earns a living fighting so-called "disinformation.
Just as it's interesting that Donell Harvin, the man whose office is responsible for the most accurate January 6 prediction about the pipe bombs, happens to be an anti-Trump deep-state zealot with a particular interest in the censorship of "disinformation.
Come to think of it, we wonder if Donell Harvin was on that text chain.
Both the random pedestrian who discovered the January 6 pipe bombs under remarkable circumstances and Donell Harvin's office that remarkably predicted the January 6 pipe bombs were both very much in the heavily cross pollinated "first responder" community in Washington, D.C. Just as Karlin Younger's place of employment doesn't necessarily suggest anything, neither does the fact that Donell Harvin's office made such a remarkably specific prediction in relation to the pipe bomb or the fact that Harvin's public statements reflect deep animus toward Trump and his supporters.
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