Edited sentence: A tactical team of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) was one of the first outside federal agencies to enter the Capitol on January 6th.All assets of this National Mission Force had been "pre-deployed" to the Washington, DC area and were in place by the weekend of January 2-3, a full three days prior to the insurrection, in anticipation of various threats of attack surrounding the date and location of the certification of the Electoral College vote.Marshals Service Special Operations Group.That this team had been mobilized, with members inside the Capitol that day, did not get publicized until January 3rd of 2022, a full one year later.The FBI HRT was only one part of a larger "National Mission Force" which included active duty military trained special operations personnel who had been temporarily reassigned to the FBI, because of the legal prohibition against using the US federal military in domestic civilian situations (see 1878 Posse Comitatus Act).The National Mission Force staged out of the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, located 30 miles south of the Capitol, and included the FBI HRT, the FBI's national "Render Safe" team, an FBI SWAT team from the Baltimore Field Office, Special Response Teams from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.These highly classified secret special forces commandos had Shoot-to-Kill Authority.This report stated that the activation and mobilization of the National Mission Force was ordered unilaterally by the authority of then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A.This same report questioned the reason as to why, if this elite unit which included the FBI HRT had been activated and pre-positioned several days in advance, why other federal security forces made little to no apparent preparation