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Capitol Police acting chief: Extremists threatened Biden speech before Congress
2021-02-26
[UPI] Militia members involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have allegedly threatened to blow up the building when President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
makes an address before a joint session of Congress, the Capitol Police's acting chief, Yogananda Pittman, told a congressional panel Thursday.

She said the police plan to maintain the current levels of enhanced security because of the threat.

"We know that members of the militia groups that were present on January 6 have stated their desires that they want to blow up the Capitol and kill as many members as possible with a direct nexus to the State of the Union, which we know that date has not been identified," Pittman said.

"We know that the insurrectionists that attacked the Capitol weren't only interested in attacking members of Congress and officers. They wanted to send a symbolic message to the nation as to who is in charge of that legislative process."

Pittman made the comments Thursday during a House appropriations subcommittee hearing on the insurrection that left five dead and dozens injured. The FBI has arrested more than 200 people in connection with the attack in which former President Donald Trump
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's supporters sought to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Presidents don't typically give a State of the Union address in the first months of their term, but Biden has said he plans to give a speech in the coming weeks. Since there's no date set for such a speech, the enhanced security efforts will be indefinite.

"We have no intention of keeping the National Guard or that fencing any longer than what is actually needed," Pittman said. "We're actively working with a scaled-down approach so that we can make sure that we address three primary variables.

Posted by:Fred

#1  Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman, told a House committee that her agency requested military backup a half-dozen times in the first hour after the Capitol was breached on Jan. 6. Pittman based her assessment on phone records obtained for then-Chief Sund showing he reached out to the Capitol's security starting shortly before 1 p.m. in the first of six calls requesting the National Guard to respond.
"Chief Sund spoke to both sergeants-at-arms to request National Guard support," Pittman said in her first testimony in a public congressional hearing on the siege.
Pittman's and Sund's accounts now directly contradict one by the top House security chief at the time, Paul Irving, who told a Senate panel this week that he didn't get an early call for military aid. Ousted Capitol Security Officials Say They Didn't Have Intel To Plan For Riot. Instead, Irving said Sund did not make the request for the National Guard until around 2 p.m. that day. And the military backup did not ultimately arrive until hours later...
Posted by: b   2021-02-26 08:00  

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