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Capitol review to recommend adding more fencing, 1,000 officers: report
The Hill ^ | - 02/26/21 06:15 PM EST | JORDAN WILLIAMS

Posted on 02/26/2021 4:48:29 PM PST by conservative98

A review of Capitol security after the Jan. 6 riots is going to recommend adding more fencing around the building, as well as more than 1,000 Capitol Police officers, two sources with direct knowledge of the findings told CNN.

The draft proposal of recommendations comes just over a month after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tapped retired Lt. General Russel Honoré to review security around the Capitol in the wake of a mob of former President Trump’s supporters laying siege to the building in an attempt to prevent the certification of President Biden’s Electoral College victory.

At the time, Pelosi said Honoré’s review was to focus on “security infrastructure, interagency processes and procedures, and command and control.”

The additional 1,000 personnel, which could cost nearly $100 million, would include roughly 350 officers and expanded staffing in regional offices for when lawmakers are at home, one of the sources told CNN.

The network reported that the recommendations also include establishing a quick reaction force composed of a National Guard military police battalion that’s on standby in Washington full-time.

And the report advises long-term security changes to perimeter security, including building an integrated system of walls and fences around the complex.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: borderwall; capitolriot; defundthepolice; fence; honore; katrina; pelosi; police; policestate; wall; wallsdontwork
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To: conservative98

Looking forward to the end of that barrier.


61 posted on 02/26/2021 9:20:52 PM PST by lurk ( )
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To: Jane Long

I would love them produce an actual verifiable threat, I’ll even let you redact certain names or other information. Just show me one verified “threat” to the capital.


62 posted on 02/26/2021 9:51:01 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

I got into an argument with a liberal if you days ago who said the capital fence and police force/national guard deployment was totally different than the border wall And CBP Officers. Their “justification” was that the capital fence is visible at all times 24/7 by officers and or cameras wall every inch of the border wall is not.


63 posted on 02/26/2021 9:52:57 PM PST by matt04 ( )
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To: conservative98

$100 million / 1000 = $100,000 per new job. Why not $15 per hour?


64 posted on 02/26/2021 10:02:36 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: joshua c

You need double fencing. If you get caught between between the two fences it’s a kill zone. Make the Mall, all the way from the capitol to the Lincoln Memorial, a free fire zone. Modify the Washington Monument making it a giant gun tower. Add a four ring deep barrier of claymores aroud the capitol. Charge tourists to run this obstacle course.


65 posted on 02/27/2021 3:20:42 AM PST by .44 Special (Tp)
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To: MinorityRepublican
So what’s up with turning the Capitol into Baghdad?

Typical reaction after pulling off the biggest crime on the planet, and keep going after Trump because you're still scared as hell.

66 posted on 02/27/2021 4:01:44 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Rumor has it that Osama Obama has a huge wall around his DC mansion too.

Yep. I saw a video of it being built soon after he bought the place. Can’t find a word about it now, I tried 6 months ago.

Secret Service now has 1000 feet of the street each way blocked off, you can’t get close enough to the place to take a picture. A reporter tried. Stopped by secret service squad. Can’t get within 1000 feet of the place.

1st thing he did was have it remodeled, and a 6 or 8 foot stone wall built. Video showed masons putting stones in place. Either Fox or Newsmax, I can’t remember which, maybe both. Fox hadn’t hired Paul Ryan yet so they’d cover this kind of thing. Last time I tried, I wanted pictures, couldn’t find a word, except the article about the reporter being blocked by secret service only picture he got was them blocking the road.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/01/04/obama-house-wall/

He asked cops if they could walk down the sidewalk to see obama’s place. He told them he would be forced to stop them if they tried.

But we don’t need a wall at our southern border...”build bridges, not walls” are obama’s exact words, when Trump was campaigning. Hillary picked up on that one, so did zuckerburg. Both live behind stone walls, zuckerburg’s neighbors had a lawsuit going against him because the stone wall he built around his mansion in hawaii blocked their view of the ocean they had enjoyed for many years. Hillary has an 8 foot stone wall around her place in new yawk, with guard shacks for secret service.

Build bridges, not walls! Yeah right...


67 posted on 02/27/2021 4:12:05 AM PST by Paleo Pete (I survived the great Texas freeze out. I may not survive biden...)
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To: conservative98

This might work .... wall them in, close the airport and allow nobody in and nobody out. Use our armed guards to enforce. They wants walls .... why not give them walls ?


68 posted on 02/27/2021 5:20:06 AM PST by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: Paleo Pete
A couple of years ago I paid a visit to Trump Tower on 5th Avenue.It was before he changed his official "home of record" to Florida so it was,at that time,one of his official residences (along with the White House).

I went mainly to look around and to buy something at his campaign store (I bought a "Veterans For Trump" t-shirt).

When you entered there was Secret Service all over the place...in uniform and in plain clothes...and there were many hallways,etc that had big signs that said something like "No Entry" and the Secret Service seal on the bottom (or top...can't recall for sure).

Bottom line...there was clearly security all over the place but not nearly as much as you describe for Osama Obama. And Trump was,at the time,a *sitting* President while Osama is a has-been nobody!

There's no way that anyone can convince me that Osama Obama gets more death threats...or more *credible* death threats...than does President Trump so Osama must be receiving "affirmative action" protection while Trump gets "white men bad" protection.

69 posted on 02/27/2021 8:56:43 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: conservative98

Those two pics right there should be an outright total anathema to any freedom-loving American. All brought to us by fraudulent, communist, American-hating democrats.


70 posted on 02/27/2021 4:14:51 PM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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