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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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1 posted on 02/26/2021 4:48:29 PM PST by conservative98
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2 posted on 02/26/2021 4:49:18 PM PST by conservative98
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MAGA crowd on Jan. 6th went home. Back to their jobs. Making a living. So what’s up with turning the Capitol into Baghdad?


3 posted on 02/26/2021 4:51:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: conservative98

They’re worried about the reaction to Kommie-la taking over power this summer.


4 posted on 02/26/2021 4:51:08 PM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: conservative98

The party that doesn’t want a fence and borders and armed guards at borders, wants their office building fenced in with armed guards

“A government that fears it’s own people is a government that works for it’s people”

The Democrats only fear not getting a paycheck and not getting money from their lobbyists. They couldn’t care less about the people


5 posted on 02/26/2021 4:51:40 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: conservative98

I thought Rats said fences and walls don’t work.


6 posted on 02/26/2021 4:52:27 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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To: conservative98

Democrats buildijg walls.. wow.


7 posted on 02/26/2021 4:52:52 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: conservative98

Madam Speaker, tear down this wall.


8 posted on 02/26/2021 4:53:31 PM PST by Obadiah
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DC is looking more like Tiananmen Square by the day.


9 posted on 02/26/2021 4:53:38 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: conservative98

The RATS are getting more paranoid by the day. It’s like they realize that we know that they stole the election.


10 posted on 02/26/2021 4:56:02 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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But I thought Biden was the most popular president of all time?!?!?!


11 posted on 02/26/2021 4:56:58 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Assange )
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The head of the Capitol Police wants it.....name is Yogananda Pittman.


12 posted on 02/26/2021 4:59:11 PM PST by Mears
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To: conservative98

They are holding the government hostage behind concertina wire.


13 posted on 02/26/2021 4:59:41 PM PST by SpaceBar
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Wow....0bowmoa’s Dream Army.

How about NO.

How about....we didn’t need this kind of security, for the elites, when Pres Trump was in DC.

Wait....I’m sure M!tch and his side kick McCarthy have called out the absurdity of this ‘recommendation’

Freaking Uniparty.

Wake up, folks.


14 posted on 02/26/2021 5:00:44 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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Paranoid? Or, brazen?


15 posted on 02/26/2021 5:01:27 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: conservative98

A couple of guard towers would complete the prison motif


16 posted on 02/26/2021 5:01:54 PM PST by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: conservative98

Wait a minute, I thought we were supposed to be defunding the police??


17 posted on 02/26/2021 5:02:03 PM PST by TexasM1A
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FTA....

.....Pittman told lawmakers on Thursday that the security measures were “not popular,” but said that they will have to remain while Congress faces security threats....


What threats, w!tch?

Show us the freaking receipts for the ACTUAL, real (not imagined, in Joe’s and Nanzi’s head) threats.


18 posted on 02/26/2021 5:03:50 PM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Mears

He/she/it probably reports directly to Nancy.


19 posted on 02/26/2021 5:03:57 PM PST by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: conservative98

Well there’s one place that’s sure immune from defund the police.


20 posted on 02/26/2021 5:06:22 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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