Posted on 02/08/2022 4:40:14 PM PST by Libloather
U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger said Tuesday that an officer conducted a security check of a Capitol Hill office that was left open, rejecting a GOP congressman’s claim that police were involved in an illegal probe last November.
In a Twitter thread Tuesday, Rep. Troy E. Nehls (R-Tex.) claimed without evidence that “The @CapitolPolice Intelligence Division investigated my office illegally and one of my staffers caught them in the act.”
Nehls accused Capitol Police leadership after one of the officers entered his office in the Longworth House Office Building with no prior notice Nov. 20, 2021, ahead of the Thanksgiving break, and took pictures of a whiteboard. The officer filed a report raising concerns about the contents of the whiteboard, which included mentions of “body armor” and a poorly drawn map of the Rayburn House Office Building - which is also part of the Capitol complex - that had an X at one of the building’s entrances.
In a statement Tuesday, Manger dismissed Nehls’s suggestion that the officer who entered the Longworth building office was acting on behalf of an intelligence-gathering operation. The officer walked into Nehls’s office, Manger said, because the door had been left open, and it is protocol for Capitol Police officers to check whenever an office is left unattended.
“If a Member’s office is left open and unsecured, without anyone inside the office, USCP officers are directed to document that and secure the office to ensure nobody can wander in and steal or do anything else nefarious,” Manger said. “The weekend before Thanksgiving, one of our vigilant officers spotted the congressman’s door was wide open.”
Nehls said he is now “very” concerned about the security within his office and his “right to privacy.”
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What is the difference between this and Watergate?
Besides it not being the president or republicans?
Woodword and Bernstein are on it. No worries. Faye Wray providing them info.
If the capital police are using the WP to defend them then I think that about says it all.
“Without evidence.”
In the Department of State, if a secure area is left open or unattended during non-duty hours, the Marine Security Guards get to throw their hat into the room, lock the door, and report the security violation.
There is no reason for someone to take pictures of data with a personal device, and if someone does take pictures that is illegal because it is a personal device. Heck, it it illegal to take pictures in the secure ares of the embassy where the Hat does the trick, e.g., the IPC.
If you do that, it’ll be insurrection / white supremacy / domestic terrorism. /s
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