Posted on 01/05/2023 4:35:28 PM PST by Libloather
The Capitol Police chief who handled the Jan. 6 riot says political bureaucracy under Speaker Nancy Pelosi put optics over safety and hampered his department from crafting an appropriate security plan to protect the home of Congress that fateful day.
Steven Sund, who resigned as the head of the $600 million a year Capitol Police Department after the tragedy, told the "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Wednesday that significant lapses occurred inside his department, inside the political leadership of Congress and across federal law enforcement and security agencies in the days before the Capitol riot.
Sund warned that the Capitol still remains vulnerable to future attacks because it has not addressed the core intelligence and security failures exposed that day or streamlined the political bureaucracy that governs his former force. The interview was part of Sund's tour to promote his new book "Courage under Fire."
"I point out in the book how politicized security on Capitol [Hill] is, and that hasn't changed. It's still the same," he said. "You still have way too much politics playing a role in security. All the oversight over the police department is all politically aligned. And anytime you have oversight that reports to a certain political party, it's a recipe for disaster."
Sund said that as chief he could not make major decisions about security planning for events like Jan. 6 without getting approval of the Capitol Police Board or alerting the House and Senate sergeants at arms. He directly challenged Pelosi's claim in a February 2021 news conference that her Speaker's office played no role in Capitol security, noting he communicated with Pelosi through then-House Sergeant at Arms Paul Irving, who resigned along with Sund.
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Underneath all this stuff was the simple fact that a trap was being created a set-up to lure people in.
And an early Happy Ray Epps Day to everyone.
Did he wait till the democrats were not in charge of the house? The Jan 6th committee is dead? Where pelosi has less power for retaliation? Or is the stranglehold on social media gone enough for alternative views/history not to be considered disinformation? I don’t know the answer’s just some speculation for thought.
Ray Epps day. The American version of Guy Fawkes day. A new federal holiday anyone? with effigy burning included?
So for ray epps day do we blow a whistle looped around our necks and wave runway batons to simulate guiding protestors to the capitol doors?
There’s got to be a proper way to celebrate the holiday but it needs promotion like billboards and such for starters.
No excrement, Mr. Holmes.
You have to realize his life was in danger, for telling the truth.
And maybe still is.
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