House Oversight Committee chair to testify that 'government was unprepared' for Capitol riot

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., will testify Wednesday that the "federal government was unprepared" for the Jan. 6 insurrection on the United States Capitol.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., will testify Wednesday that the "federal government was unprepared" for the Jan. 6 insurrection on the United States Capitol, "even though it was planned in plain sight on social media for the world to see," according to excerpts of her prepared statement obtained by ABC News ahead of a congressional hearing. Maloney, who is chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform, is also expected to say that the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation "have a special duty to warn of domestic terrorist threats, yet it’s clear that despite all of this intelligence, the federal government was not prepared." "It is our duty to understand what went wrong that day, to seek accountability, and to take action to prevent this from ever happening again," Maloney says in her prepared testimony. "Today -- more than four months later -- we’re still in the dark about exactly what went wrong." Maloney is also expected to grill former acting U.S. Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller on the timeline of events regarding the delayed response in deploying National Guard troops after the Capitol building was breached by rioters. In her prepared testimony, Maloney says the U.S. Department of Defense's "explanations of its own actions have failed to address critical questions."