Robert Contee, the chief of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), said on May 16 that he had no contact with the office of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.
During a hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) asked D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser whether she or her office had contact with the speaker’s office, the sergeant-at-arms, or any federal law enforcement agency about intelligence of a likelihood of violence on Jan. 6. Gosar did not specify which sergeant-at-arms, as there is one each on the House and Senate side.
