WASHINGTON — The U.S. Capitol Police plans to maintain its enhanced level of security around the Capitol through at least President Joe Biden's first official address to Congress because intelligence suggests extremists could be planning an attack, acting Chief Yogananda Pittman said Thursday.
Pittman told members of the subcommittee that oversees funding for the legislative branch that while her department knew armed extremists could commit violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6,showed"no credible threat" of the size and scale of the riot. The comments echoed the testimony her predecessor and other current and former law enforcement officials provided to the Senate earlier this week.
Despite the assessment, “the department was not prepared for the massive groups of violent insurrectionists that descended” on the Capitol,” Pittman said in her prepared remarks. She said Capitol police were “quickly overwhelmed” by thousands of insurrectionists, many of whom were armed. Herrera Beutler questioned Pittman about the communications failures on Jan. 6 among the officers. The acting chief said that it was a"multi-tiered failure" in which the department was so overwhelmed that the officers who should have been providing directions over radios were assisting officers on the ground defending the Capitol.
Even though the information indicating this threat was open source and the rough size of the crowd was known ahead of time... Acting Chief Pittman had a lot of excuses and not a whole lot of actual answers. Her refusal to commit to public transparency was beyond disappointing.
No credible threat, yet you deemed it necessary to write a fear mongering article anyways. To the surprise of no one.
A shame when people are called for help and not received
Really!?! Didn’t one person look up from pushing reports around & think, ‘but social media really shows a war brewing. Maybe we should should better prepare.’ Either corrupt or incompetent. Terrible. CNN ABC StephenAtHome
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