Posted on 01/29/2021 5:43:12 AM PST by Red Badger
The acting U.S. Capitol Police chief said Thursday that security was insufficient around the Capitol and fencing must be installed permanently.
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said “back-up forces” must also be readily available.
Pittman made the statement a little more than three weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters that left five dead and dozens injured.
“In light of recent events, I can unequivocally say that vast improvements to the physical security infrastructure must be made to include permanent fencing, and the availability of ready, back-up forces in close proximity to the Capitol,” Pittman said.
The Capitol is currently surrounded by 8-foot, nonscalable fencing topped with barbed wire. There are thousands of National Guard troops stationed in the Capitol complex.
The additional security was added following the Jan. 6 attack and in anticipation of the Jan. 20 swearing-in ceremony for President Biden.
But the extraordinary security has not been removed, although the troop numbers decreased to about 7,000.
Pittman suggested some kind of fencing should be left in place, pointing to a recommendation made years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
“Even before September 11, 2001, security experts argued that more needed to be done to protect the U.S. Capitol,” Pittman wrote. “In fact, a 2006 security assessment specifically recommended the installation of a permanent perimeter fence around the Capitol.”
Pittman’s recommendation for permanent fencing follows a security assessment by the Capitol Police, which was overwhelmed by the protesters on Jan. 6 and, at some entryways, simply allowed them to stream into the building.
There are other reviews underway, including one ordered by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat. Pelosi has appointed retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honore to conduct a security assessment. In addition, the Capitol Police inspector general is reviewing the Jan. 6 attack and the response by the police.
“I welcome each of these reviews, and I am ensuring that the Department will provide all of the information that is necessary to facilitate these studies,” Pittman said. “In the end, we all have the same goal — to prevent what occurred on January 6 from ever happening again.”
Pelosi has installed metal detectors at the doors to the House chamber, citing threats from GOP lawmakers who carry guns.
Didn’t work for the Bastille.........................
How about a moat. Forget fencing build an old fashioned castle structure with ramparts and stations to drop down burning oil on anyone who dares disturb the royalty and privelge of the Congress critters
Jill Biden will glady wear a jewel encrusted crown and like many of the medieval queens sit by and pull the puppet strings on the receipt King Joseph the brainless
“If D.C. does become a state, will it change its name to New Moscow? New Beijing, maybe? New Pyongyang?”
I’m voting for Fort Custer as the new name. Everything outside of Fort Custer is hostile Indian country.
Let them fence themselves in, isolate themselves. No one wants to visit that wicked, evil, corrupt town anyway. Let the business die. Let it be their own private ghost town. Who cares.
Hunger Games, here we come.
Biden is doing everything by EO. Just have him move back to his basement and open the WH to the taxpayers.
Pittman made the statement a little more than three weeks after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump protesters that left five dead and dozens injured.
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They think if they keep repeating a lie over and over, people will believe it.
We don’t.
The leftie fear that comes from the knowledge that they are as wrong as wrong can be is permeating the whole of their democrook party. Their nights must be horrible.
IIRC. In the drafting of the constitution, Madison argued against a schedule for Congress to meet. In some years there would be no business.
Imagine if politicians actually followed the constitution.
Nothing says “illegitimate” more than that. They’re guilty. Trump won.
I wonder what this country would be like if there were 2 capitols and citizens had to choose each year to send their taxes to one, and only one of them.
The 2nd one would eventually be just like the first one....................
They should make it 32 feet tall and solid, fill in all the manholes inside the walls, install a single flood gate, and then fill the whole mess up with water.
“The acting U.S. Capitol Police chief said Thursday that security was insufficient around the Capitol and fencing must be installed permanently.”
The Chief of the Capitol Police wants to put permanant fencing around the Peoples House.
Why not install Claymore mines and Machine Gun nest as well?
Why Not just do your damned job and Ignore the Evil Speaker of the House. She Brought this action upon all of the personel at the Capitol and she hasn’t suffered one bit since.
brilliant
I had one of those surgically removed once upon a time.
Any government that fears its own citizens more than foreign enemies and building domestic defenses to protect itself from its citizens is not a legitimate government.
We ARE “a nation under siege”...some people just haven’t figured it out yet.
I thought the democrats were against fences and walls. Oh yeah, Biden is president now!!
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