The more one reads about this, the more it's clear: January 6th was Nancy Pelosi's 'insurrection.'
...Patel told Jekielek that the Department of Defense had offered to send thousands National Guard troops to D.C. to quell any potential violence, but Mayor Bowser had rejected the offer for what he believed were political reasons.
He explained that although it is the job of law enforcement to protect the nation’s Capitol, National Guard troops could have been deployed to assist their “law enforcement partners” through a request from the mayor, the governor, or Capitol Police.
“That’s what should have happened, and that’s what we told them they might want to consider,” Patel said. “But they flat-out rejected.” The former Trump official also pointed out that the FBI should have briefed Cabinet officials on whatever intelligence they had surrounding the Jan. 6 event, and could have stationed up to a thousand uniformed agents around the Capitol, but didn’t. Additionally, he argued, a temporary fence could have been put up to protect the Capitol building during the protest, but it was not.
Patel told Jekielek that mistakes were made that were “intentional or otherwise,” and that’s what led to the January 6 fiasco....
Yup. And Wray of the FBI was not present at ANY of the high-level meetings on 1/3, 1/4, and 1/5.
Hiding much?
Very much related: Nancy has sent Capitol Police Sturmtruppen into other parts of the country.
Why?
What to make of the DC shopping mall security guards branching out like this?
ReplyDeleteCapitol Police are federal, but unlike other federal law enforcement agencies their jurisdiction is narrowly defined outside of DC. They're not trained well enough to be other than expanded home-in-the-district personal protection details for some of the congress critters. Perhaps a reaction to state and local LEOs becoming somewhat less cooperative about affording the critters such protections at local expense now that defunding is all the rage?