Capitol security flaws probed by lawmakers after deadly riot
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Demonstrators steal a Metropolitan Police riot shield outside the U.S. Capitol building during a protest in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Eric Lee.
Three former top U.S. Capitol security officials are facing aggressive questions from two Senate panels digging into the lapses that allowed a mob of Donald Trump s supporters to overwhelm police officers and ransack the building as Congress was certifying the presidential election results.
The joint hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Rules and Administration Committees on Tuesday is the first in a series of lawmaker inquiries into the origins of the Jan. 6 insurrection and the failure of the Capitol s security forces to anticipate and then quell the riot, which left five people dead.