No way to have open Capitol and prevent January 6 insurrection, acting USCP chief says
In a closed-door hearing before the House Appropriations Committee, the acting Capitol Police chief said the Capitol campus will have to become more secure. Author: Jordan Fischer, Nathan Baca (WUSA9) Published: 2:58 PM EST January 26, 2021 Updated: 11:30 AM EST January 27, 2021
WASHINGTON U.S. Capitol security officials testified before a closed session of the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that they need to “harden this campus” after the events of January 6 – portending possible changes to the intentionally open and accessible Capitol building.
Acting House Sergeant-at-Arms Timothy P. Blodgett and acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda D. Pittman both submitted testimony to the committee about law enforcement’s failure to stop insurrectionists entering the Capitol during the joint session of Congress earlier this mo
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The acting Capitol Police chief, Yogananda D. Pittman, told a House panel that the agency “failed to meet its own high standards as well as yours.”Credit.J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press
The acting chief of the Capitol Police apologized to Congress on Tuesday for the agency’s extensive security failures on Jan. 6, acknowledging during a closed-door briefing that the department knew there was a “strong potential for violence” but failed to take adequate steps to prevent what she described as a “terrorist attack.”
Yogananda D. Pittman, the acting chief of police, also confirmed that the Capitol Police Board, an obscure panel made up of three voting members, had initially declined a request two days earlier for National Guard troops and then delayed for more than an hour as the violence unfolded on Jan. 6 before finally agreeing to a plea from the Capitol Police for National Guard troops, according to prepare
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A few weeks ago, I pointed out that the Capitol Police had 2,000 sworn officers. Far more than enough to secure Congress from a few hundred rioters. Now the new acting chief, who fits the identity politics demographic profile, mentioned that 1,200 Cappies were actually on duty. She said the Capitol Police had 1,200 people working on site when the attack occurred, which was “no match” for “the tens of thousands of insurrectionists.” That s complete nonsense. There were only a few hundred people, current inflated fed estimates go as high as 700 and include people who were let in, who actually got inside. (Some people attacked police outside without going inside. And many of those who went inside were peaceful.)