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Lt. Gen. Russel Honore says that Congress will be told it needs 1,000 more Capitol Police officers and more barriers and it will cost around $100 million, according to The Western Journal.
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore has been labeled an “anti-Trump general.”
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore was handpicked by Pelosi to oversee security issues that were highlighted during Jan. 6.
Today, Capitol Police responded to Nancy Pelosi’s decision to put a partisan in charge of a security review from Jan 6 – an individual who has suggested Capitol Police helped the rioters. Russel Honore should be removed pic.twitter.com/V5w1EICOML
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) February 23, 2021
Honore wants to add 1,000 Capitol Police officers in addition to 350 to protect members of Congress and staff in their regional districts and more walls and fences around Capitol Hill and its environs.
According to the draft report Honore suggests there should be “a National Guard military police battalion to be on standby in Washington full time.”
I'd like to see a big group of patriots all gather Peacefully in front of the wall around the capitol with mega-phones and all shout repeatedly,
"Mrs. Pelosi, Tear Down This Wall"!#PelosiTearDownThisWall— Roger McEntyre (@RogerMcEntyre) February 27, 2021
Pelosi’s Capitol security: $100 million for officers, more walls to keep out 75 million white supremacists https://t.co/2UBo1zKbAH
— Deenie (@deenie7940) February 27, 2021
Bring our troops home from Fort Pelosi! https://t.co/pbDGgXvt0G
— It's all in the Plumbing folks (@rdeoliv777) February 27, 2021
“We have no intention of keeping the National Guard soldiers or that fencing any longer than what is actually needed. We’re actively working with a scaled-down approach so that we can make sure that we address three primary variables,” Pittman said.
“One is the known threat to the environment, two is the infrastructure vulnerabilities and then that third variable being the limitations the US Capitol’s police knows that it has as it relates to human capital and technology resources.”
“What I didn’t hear on the call was, obviously everything depends on conditions, but I think there should be sort of a general plan of, ‘we think we’ll come back to some normal by X day and if circumstances change we’ll have to change,’” Kaine said.
From The Western Journal:
CNN added that although there is a clear focus on short-term protection of the Capitol through fences in the report, the extent of the longer-term use of walls and fences to block off Capitol Hill was uncertain.
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman said this week that there is no timetable for replacing the current fencing put up in January.
— Advertisement — She also would not give a date when National Guard troops in Washington will be sent home.
