“We Don’t Negotiate With Rebels”: An Intelligence Assessment of the Assault on the Capitol

This week brought the most shocking images to emanate from our nation’s capital in decades. The January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally held on the Ellipse just south of the White House, where President Donald J. Trump exhorted his superfans to refuse to concede that he had lost his reelection bid, was the proximate cause of the subsequent assault on Capitol H…